In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Harlan Stenn wrote: > >>A threaded newsreader is all that's needed, right?
No. I use an excellent threaded newsreader (I've mentioned it before here:-), and now that threading works again here, I can go to the parent article (assuming it's available) with a single keypress, and back again with another - but why should I need to? What happens is basically this: (Starts reading posting by Harlan) What the f** is he talking about? (Goes to parent article) Aha, it was that thread... - and what did Harlan say? (Goes back to Harlans post) OK - and just how does that relate to what he is commenting on? (Back to parent) Etc etc. Compare this to having the nice, standard Usenet layout of interleaved statements/questions and responses in one place - the non-quoting style is a pain. >If all you have to read news with is Netscape, no! Solaris does not >appear to ship with a newsreader. That and Windoze are what I have. Well, there are plenty of free newsreaders that run on Solaris around... >Netscape does, however, quote the text I'm replying to automagically! As any decent newsreader should. Perhaps you could also look into trimming the quotes, and putting your comments next to the thing they're commenting?:-) Seeing that your posting style is at the other extreme from Harlan's.:-) (With the "quote everything and put new text at one end" style, I actually prefer that the new text is (shudder) placed at the top...) >You seem to be the only user of any newsgroup I read who does not quote! Actually, unfortunately, it is becoming quite widespread - but in most cases, it can be blamed on the "new and improved" but totally broken interface of Google Groups, combined with general newbieness (neither of which applies to Harlan:-). --Per Hedeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
