Re: New Look at DentalCom.Net

Now set Agent to hide all read messages, and you will see that the
postings from DC make zero sense the second time you visit the NG.
(Regardless of how you set up Agent to disply the thread--oldes or
newst first). Once the rest of the thread is not there,,,,,,,,,, the
DC postings look like someone talking to themselves in abusy hallway.


On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:55:38 GMT, Administrator
<Administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Ok. I installed free agent by forte. I set it up to display all posts,
>read or unread, display it. I set it too sort the messages by thread,
>newest first. And I set it to expand all messages.
>
>With this setup, I started reading some older posts. I noticed people
>from DC, werent quoting any prior message to reply to. So they are
>basically replying to a thread with a new post without any quotes or
>any information from the message they are replying too.
>
>The reason why this is, because its easy to follow on the site. The
>site has a "quote button" If you want to reply to a post, that button
>should be used so it wont confuse people. When I created this post
>right now, I hit the quote button. That creates all the older message
>info at the bottom so you guys have an idea of what message I am
>replying to.
>
>Another problem I noticed with free agent is that if you sorted
>everything by newest thread first, it works, but the thread itself is
>organized by oldest to newest, and it looks like it cannot be changed,
>in this view. But if you have read all the messages, and your view is
>set to "not show read messages and only show unread messages", then
>this shouldn't be a problem because you wont see the old messages
>anyways.
>
>So I think the biggest problem is users posting to SMD, without hitting
>the quote button.
>
>Organizing it by newest messages first, and not by newest thread first,
>seems to be the only way to sort the list by new messages first, even if
>you havent read them.
>
>Of course, then you loose organization by not having it sorted by
>thread first.
>
>I would like to see sorting by the thread with the newest messages
>first, and the messages inside the thread be organized by newest to
>oldest, even if you have it set to display all messages, unread and
>read. Maybe I missed that.
>
>One thing is for sure, agent has a lot of options. I still like x-news.
>
>
>
>Joel M. Eichen Wrote:
>> I agree about top posting. It saves my left mouse button!
>>
>> Nested means what you are referring to as "under the original." I
>> missed that you are hiding the original threads although you did tell
>> us that before.
>>
>>
>> I will try to reproduce what you mentioned and I wil ltry to get
>> MS-Outhouse up and running to see how Carabelli sees threads. In the
>> end, some suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Joel
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:02:00 GMT, Dr. Steve <DRSTEVE@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:33:51 -0400, Joel M. Eichen
>> ><JOELEICHEN@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >>REPLY
>> >>
>> >>Steve I see this as the thread you just entered is nested under the
>> >>original which reads,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Nice work Justin. The new look and the
>> >>new organizational headers are superb!
>> >>
>> >>Joel
>> >
>> >
>> >I am set up to read newsgroups on Agent by thread. The oldest thread
>> >is displayed at the top and the newest at the bottom of the screen. I
>> >prefer to have the thread expanded immediately upon downloading of the
>> >messages. I, also, have the software set to hide all read messages.
>> >So,,,,,,,,,,,, I only see what I have not yet read.
>> >
>> >Exactly what you mean by "un-nested" ,,,,,,,,,,, I am not certain.
>> >
>> >As a matter of fact, I prefer it if people top-post, as I only will
>> >have to scroll down if I need information on what was said previously.
>> >Bottom posting to long message threads which have not been snipped,
>> >require too much time to get to the new message.
>> >
>> >Ask you Admin-Justin fellow to try logging in with a newsgroup server
>> >so that he can see what we are complaining about. Perhaps he can stop
>> >sipping his soup long enough to figure out why we don't like the DC
>> >gateway.
>> >
>> >
>> >```````````````````````
>> >Stephen (What's a temporary?)
>> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Stephen (What's a temporary?)
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