Re: Return to Yarn ;)

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:37:41 -0500

Er... I offer the list my humblest apologies for letting a pile of high
ASCII (codes <128) escape into the mailing list (masquerading as a slrn
screen snapshot). I'd not studied it, and knowing that reader was also
ported to VMS and Linux I made a bad assumption. Oops!

What it *really* kind of sorta looks like is the following (imagine the
pretty lines replacing the rough one's I'm drawing, tho I think the shot
as is looks just fine):

> 1 D 11:[Jeff Gerard.] Neologic 4.5d????
>-> - 29:[David J. Bon] |->
> 3 - 37:[gregory@op.n] | |->
> 4 - 24:[Jeff Gerard.] | |->
> 5 - 27:[Peter Drumm ] | |->
> 6 - 15:[Alan Burns ] | юд>
> 7 - 30:[William C. F] |->
> 8 - 37:[Marc Mitsial] Neologic Message marking inconsistencies?

Basically, the arrows show the thread level. Although I guess I'm not
sure how much I actually USE this prettiness. Some, I guess, and I'd
likely use it a lot more more in Yarn where I have a largish database
for some of the groups I read (my ISP zaps 'em after 3 days).

It's useful in c.o.o.advocacy for weeding out those "oh yeah"/"me too"
threads (they go way to the right really fast <g>).

-- 
-Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@skypoint.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
      Written offline using PC Yarn + Yep + FTE under OS/2 Warp
      Let him who is stoned cast the first sin...