Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:18:59 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: postmaster@freebsd.org, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: Broken User Experience - online mailing list Message-ID: <2882063.hHqAuc6tWs@curlew> In-Reply-To: <2E1B782A-DB40-41B1-A036-A790C4DCC409@nimnet.asn.au> References: <2E1B782A-DB40-41B1-A036-A790C4DCC409@nimnet.asn.au>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart2273836.THHZn3L5Ee Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Saturday, 18 June 2022 06:15:15 BST Ian Smith wrote: > Instead of linking messages to next and previous messages in thread, there > are only (possibly multiple) Reply links, and Reply To links back, but no > "next / previous message in thread" links, which a) allowed full traversal > of all messages in the thread, and b) moving on to the next thread after > the last one. When faced with this type of problem with web based lists I generally open the message in a new tab so that I can quickly switch back to the list to read the next item. -- Mike Clarke --nextPart2273836.THHZn3L5Ee Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Saturday, 18 June 2022 06:15:15 BST Ian Smith wrote:</p> <br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Instead of linking messages to next and previous messages in thread, there</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> are only (possibly multiple) Reply links, and Reply To links back, but no</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> "next / previous message in thread" links, which a) allowed full traversal</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> of all messages in the thread, and b) moving on to the next thread after</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> the last one.</p> <br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">When faced with this type of problem with web based lists I generally open the message in a new tab so that I can quickly switch back to the list to read the next item.</p> <br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">-- </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Mike Clarke</p> </body> </html> --nextPart2273836.THHZn3L5Ee--
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