Yup, and I think this image might help make the point.

It combines an illustration of non-forum-threading (pretty!), messages 
that arrive without me having to go check a website, a handy search box, 
and the action that I have to keep performing with this thread...

http://beta4.com/~julian/tbird-threading.jpg

Julian

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> Ok, I realize this might look not as nice as it does with non ASCII
> characters, but its enough to show decent threading support.
> Threading is not exclusive of forums, neither is the ability of being
> able to select the threads that interest you.
> 
>   25     Oct 10 Ken G. Brown    (  93) RE: Knowledge Documentation topic/relationship maps??
>   26     Oct 10 Ron Teitelbaum  ( 119) -->
>   27 N   Oct 10 Tom Phoenix     (  19) Re: Sudoku
>   28 N   Oct 10 stephane ducass (  35) -->
>   29 N   Oct 11 Georg Gollmann  (  14) -->
>   30 N   Oct 10 st?phane ducass ( 234) about PLMRefactoring for 3.9
>   31 O   Oct 10 st?phane ducass (  41) Need to do something
>   32 N   Oct 11 Michael van der (  28) -->
>   33 N   Oct 11 Cees De Groot   (  27)   +->
>   34 N   Oct 10 Peter Crowther  (  21) +*>
>   35 N   Oct 10 Andreas Raab    (  24)   -->
>   36 N   Oct 10 Alan Grimes     (  12)   -->page added to the janitors project at wiki.
>   37 N   Oct 10 Ron Teitelbaum  (  40) RE: Replacement for SHA1 (SHA256 or SHA512)
>   38 N   Oct 10 Patrick Mauritz (  13) -->
>   39 O   Oct 11 Cees De Groot   (  11)   -->
>   40 N   Oct 10 Marcus Denker   (  31) Re: [ANN] Squeak CD and DVD updated
>   41 N   Oct 10 Kurt Thams      (  28) topic/relationship maps in Squeak?
>   42 N   Oct 10 Ron Teitelbaum  (  46) -->
>   43 O   Oct 10 Mark Mayfield   (   9) A Patent for method of providing stand-in objects
>   44 N   Oct 11 Chris Schreiner (  16) -->
>   45 N   Oct 11 Jan B. Krej??   (  39) MySQL and DateTime problem
>   46 N   Oct 11 goran at krampe.se (  14) Re: Election Team
>   47 N   Oct 11 goran at krampe.se (  28) Re: Henryk bluelook image
>   48 N   Oct 11 goran at krampe.se (  84) Henrik Gedenryd has passed away
>   49 N   Oct 11 Blake           (   4) -->
>   50 N   Oct 11 David Shaffer   (   2) -->
>