Klarinet Archive - Posting 000575.txt from 2002/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Crossposting between Klarinet and BBoard
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:53:43 -0400

Tony,
I specifically don't have a "show all new". There becomes such a thing as
"the thread that will not die" - people post to the same thread forever -
and it ends up morphing into things that become irrelevant or worse. Having
threads slowly move off the forefront has (intentionally) saved me from
having to break up some fights on the BBoard.

However, there is a little checkbox that says "Email replies to this thread
to the address above" on the lower left of the text entry box. If you check
that you'll get an email with any new postings in that thread along with the
URL of the new posting.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:Tony@-----.uk]

I do have a question for Mark. There is a device on the BB that allows
you to 'mark all read', and then when you next load the page, the
threads that have been added to meanwhile show up with a 'new' tag.
That's a terrific help, but it still means that if I want to check
whether or not an older thread I'm interested in is still alive, I have
to work my way back through several pages. On Klarinet I just see the
new ones arrive.

Would it be possible to implement a 'show all new' from the entry page?
I do appreciate that that might be completely unfeasible.

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