Question for Elliot

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Posted By: Paul

Elliot,

Once in a while, when someone adds to a thread, their comment ends up in the middle of the thread instead of at the end. Here's an example. http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/thread?forumid=153652&messageid=1026690214&lp=1034552138. All of the posts are from July, except for a brand new one from October stuck in the middle. Do you know why this occurs? Thanks.

Paul

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Posted By: Andy Baran

Paul,

I think that it has something to do with which message in the thread was responded to, if that makes sense.

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Posted By: Paul

Thanks. That may be right, but that seems like a flaw in the system. What a pain to have to look over an entire thread (30 entries long) to find the new stuff.

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Posted By: jay behrens

I've noticed the same thing. The repsonse is placed based on which post they replied to. I also find it annoying that you ahve to sift through the entire thread to find the new posts.

Jay

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, and you post is at the very end, miles from the post you were answering.

Since it only works part of the time, it must be a flaw in the system.

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Posted By: Elliot

Andy is correct. It depends on which post in the thread that you respond to. It is set up that way so that the response makes sense as opposed to being placed at the end of a long thread, out of sequence with the post which question it might have answered. However, in the example that you used, I agree it is a pain. Clearly, there is no perfect system of threading that will cover every situation.

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Posted By: Anonymous

I know a number of people on this board get annoyed when people quote parts of pervious posts, but this a tradition that goes back to the early days of USENET so that there was no confusion about what you are talking about and didn't need the whole thread to make sense of what the person was talking about

Jay

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Posted By: leon

If you put whom you are addressing in the message title then your message won't get as mixed up....as to who you are responding too anyway...regards all

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Posted By: Brian C Daniels

that would help!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Elliot, if you really think posts are being regularly placed next to the things they respond to, I guess you don't understand my posts.

But then, I believe you've already said something like that.

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Posted By: John(z28jd)

<Elliot, if you really think posts are being regularly placed next to the things they respond to, I guess you don't understand my posts>
If it helps Julie,alot of people dont understand any of your posts either