RE: [Phpwebsite-developers] Comment View

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 05:00, Matthew McNaney wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:02 +0200, Ren=C3=A9 C. Kiesler wrote:
> > If you remove the nesting here, you don't have any chance of following =
the
> > discussions.=20
>=20
> Then I believe we should ask "why" flat view is not conducive to
> following discussions. What are some different subsets of the flat view
> that would allow this?

Matt,
People naturally follow threads. It's ingrained in our communication.
The problem is HTML doesn't provide a good way to represent threaded
discussions. NNTP does, but not many hosting providers make that service
available to their clients.

GMANE has a few different views of mailing lists they archive.

        http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.leaf.user

Pear Net_NNTP package

        http://pear.php.net/package/Net_NNTP

Google Groups has another way of displaying things. They got a lot of
flack when they changed to this new style.

        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.misc?hl=3Den


Personally, I prefer an NNTP client. HTML isn't designed for discussion.

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Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
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