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Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover (WAS: CONLANG article deleted from Wikipedia)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 13:52
Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
>... > (Not to mention that my Usenet client does threading, whereas most > forums I've seen don't -- they just dump entire conversations into one > window, much like Gmail, without making it clear who replied to whom.)
And the confusing thing is that in contrast to mails where the correct threading depends on correct mail client implementations (References an In-Reply-To headers) and subject lines etc., which all tend to be partially broken, any forum software has ultimate knowledge about the threading because all replies are under its own control. Absurd. **Henrik