Re: Super Nested Threads

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On 2004.11.22 01:32, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 11/21/2004 07:09:52 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/balsa_issue.png
> > 
> > Is there a solution to the problem I'm having (other than  
> > turning of threaded view) in the image above?
>
> Thanks for the kind words!
>
> I guess we've all run into that issue; the mailing list archives  
> appear to finesse it by limiting nesting to 4 levels--I've never  
> studied how, but I suppose it's just a flat view of that level  
> and deeper.  It's probably not too hard to implement, perhaps  
> with a user pref for the depth.  Hmm, then "JWZ" and "flat view"  
> just become extreme cases of the more general case...that's  
> appealing!

What some clients and web forums do is that after the first
level of indenting, a message doesn't indent if it has only
one reply.

Like

  1 message
  2   reply to 1
  3     reply to 2
  4       reply to 3
  5       reply to 4
  6     reply to 2
  7       reply to 6
  8       reply to 7
  9     reply to 2

Mike.