Subj : Re: format for data storage?
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Sun Jul 31 2005 10:23 pm

Rob Thorpe wrote
(in article 
<1122841005.909371.239650@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
> At this point in the thread I could have replied
> to your exact original message, but since you've removed the quoted
> text I can't without having to search around to find it.

I think Ben may suspect you are making it up. :-)

For the record, I am experimenting with a newsreader with a 
'visual thread display' along the side that makes it easier than 
normal to figure out what posts are in response to what other 
ones, but that only works if the replies are close to each other 
and haven't been purged off local disk by expiration.

The real point is that it takes extra effort on the part of 
every reader to figure out the context when it is not provided 
inline, whereas it takes a tiny amount of effort on the part of 
one person (actually automatic with good newsreaders) to keep 
the context info in at time of posting.

-- 
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the  
 one." --Spock, The Wrath of Khan

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