| Kenneth Sloan 2004-10-24, 5:45 pm |
| cmcanulty@hotmail.com (Carol McAnulty) writes:
quote:
> We could save us all a lot of time if in replying to any message we
> delete the previous message in the reply box.
What's a "reply box"?
quote:
> Yes it does take a few
> seconds but it makes it so much easier to study a stream of replies.
> Otherwise you have to scroll past all the old messages with each
> reply. I am suprised google doesn't make this the default.
Guess what - not everyone uses "Google" to read USENET newsgroups.
Another guess - Google doesn't set the standards for how USENET
newsgroups work. The founders of Google were in diapers when USENET was
estalished.
quote:
> It also
> takes oodles less storage space for the group and makes it much more
> efficient to archive the group, Carol M
How big is an "oodle"?
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