[SpamCop-Mail] Re: This newsgroup is going away

[Marjolein Katsma]

Kenneth Loafman (loafman at spamcop.net) wrote in 
news:lsr210ds37cffcu5cdp89l2mk9s1qh06pb at 4ax.com:

>>In most browsers I know, the spacebar or page down key will scroll
>>down almost a full page.  That will help in seeing more of the current
>>Reply and/or subsequent Replies within a Topic.  These are analagous
>>to current and/or subsequent posts within a thread in NNTP newsgroup
>>parlance. 
> 
> But it still takes you off the keyboard to go to the next thread.

Not necessarily. A good browser allows complete navigation with the 
keyboard (although there's no single standard for that and IE, Mozilla 
and Opera each implement this difefrently).

> And how do you tell what part of the thread you've already read?  No
> web forum I know keeps track of that info. 

Actually, many web forums can do that, by means of session information 
and/or cookies. But it does require the user to sign up, and login 
before use. Compared to that, such functionality is more robust in a 
decent news reader, but it's not impossible for a web-bassed forum.


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