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Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 30 May 2003 17:07:54 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Steve Barile wrote:
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Yikes! I just posted a reply and all my text was moved to the bottom of the
message!
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Good! That’s where your replies belongs in a threaded discussion.
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Must be really painful on the smaller screen mobile devices! ;)
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Not if you trim irrelevant portions of the reply correctly.
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I guess I’m used to the “replying at the top of the message” convention after
14 years at work...
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Top-posting is a fine thing for non-threaded discussions, especially where the
recipient list changes frequently and people don’t have access to the rest of
the messages. But in a public threaded discussion group system, top-posting
sucks.
--Todd
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| Yikes! I just posted a reply and all my text was moved to the bottom of the message! Oy! Sure it makes it easy to read when the only message you read, in a thread, is the last one. But if you read the replies as the come in then you're forced to (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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