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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (691)	7/19/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2340

re: conversation trees I also believe the intent of an SI subject is to provide a forum for immediate give and take so the current read-every-post style of use is important to sustain this. I guess I think of a tree function as a more sophisticated version of the "View Replies" button. -- you get a snapshot of the sub-thread within the overall subject. I think this would be a very valuable feature to catch up with a conversation THIS WEEK not a month down the road. I'm wondering if it would help in finding the starting post of a conversation. I don't think of a tree as a means to go back to keep old sub-topics afloat, I find this a problem with net news groups. Topics die a natural death anyway, and the subject moves on to the next item of interest.