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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99
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To: John Biddle who wrote (186)7/5/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Toby Zidle  Read Replies (2) of 2340
 
John, I mentioned three features that are present for individual messages, but not in the group of ten messages:

1) Ability to change the message number in the 'reply' box to link directly to that message.
2) Ability to reply to that message (in the group of ten).
3) Ability to look at replies to that message (in the group of ten).

I'm curious why you want the feature.

I have to assume you mean feature #1, because the benefits of features #2 and #3 seem so clear. The benefit of #1 is, admittedly, less clear.

Let's set up a scenario for feature #1:
There's a fairly active thread that you haven't looked at over a long weekend (like this one). Subject Marks tells you that you have 75 unread messages in the SI Beta thread. Message #187 (of 222) from John is a message I know I want to respond to, but I want to read beyond it for several messages first to see that no one has responded in my place. (I don't like to repeat someone else's earlier message just because I hadn't yet read it.)

So now I'm down around message #204 when I feel that I can reply to #187. I can't get back to #187 directly. I have to go to #204, then enter #187 in the 'reply' box.

There's one scenario. Admittedly the case for feature #1 isn't as strong as the others. But it would be more convenient to go back directly to your message from within a group of ten. You do have a point that the alignments may be hard to program, but SI programmers seem to handle the alignments elsewhere just fine.

I hope this one example answered your question.
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