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To: steve who wrote (101)	2/14/1998 1:11:00 AM
From: Linda Kaplan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 263

Steve, I'm not sure this is what you mean, but you don't want to individually decide whether to ignore each post; you want to be making a global decision for the poster. So you probably shouldn't have the clutter of the option to Ignore at every Next button. Linda

To: steve who wrote (101)	2/14/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 263

I believe the best suggestion so far has been the listing of the next five or so posts at the bottom of the current post. The reader would either click on the next button at the top as we now do to read the next post in the thread or look at the listing of the next five posts at the bottom of the current post. The name of the poster could be included next to the first line of the post. This would be very similar to having the option of skipping any poster or any offtopic post. It would enable a faster pass through a long thread. If threads make use of the first line as a subject line the format could be very useful. I have not seen any objection to this idea yet. I believe it addresses most of the concerns raised on this topic to date. We wondered if it would slow down the server. Regards Zeuspaul

To: steve who wrote (101)	2/14/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 263

A "look ahead" at the bottom of each message might look like this: Jeff Forrest: Does anyone know when earning are? Paul Blakeslee: Click on the link at the top of the screen, silly. craig crawford: Must I continue to suffer all of you fools? BaldManFromMars: I'm seeing red, too. Moonray: February 13, 1998 - Reuters - (San Jose) 3Com today reported... Leap to next message. The headline from each post could be a hot link to that post, or there could be a blind link to leap to the next message. There could also be an indicator that indicates that there is more content in each message.