How the postings on this board are organized - CONFUSING

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Posted By: runscott

I just finished reading a response of Pete's to one of my posts on the "old gum cards" thread (which I promised not to reopen, but I couldn't resist!). I realized after all my posts that no one would have any idea what I was responding to, but since I had implicated someone for something they had nothing to do with, and I had yelled at Pete when I was wrong, I figured it was better than nothing.

To really follow these threads, you have to look at the indentation, which is extremely confusing. If it's indented, it's a response to the next post above it that is one indentation to the left. If it's not indented compared to the one above it, then it simply is a later response to the next one above it that IS indented to the left.

I know this is confusing, but I've seen several posts where people think that someone is responding to their post, and they AREN'T - if you understand the indentation thing, you won't make this mistake and you won't get your feelings hurt when someone else isn't even talking about you.

This is not like the CU Forum where all posts in a thread get stuck on the end regardless of what you are responding to. David confuses things even more by frequently responding to his own questions!

Having said that, yes Pete, I was apologizing, and no, I didn't add any additional posts after my apologies.

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Posted By: leon

This is easy....just put who/what you are responding to in the "message Title"...regards all

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Posted By: jeff s

this doesn't solve the problem, but it aids with the sanity -- it's easy to scan the right hand column where every post is dated. It doesn't make it immediately clear who is responding to whom, but it does help clear up the original chronology of posts.

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Posted By: B C Daniels

if they were in chronological order with newest on top!