On Feb 19 18:09 96, jim barchuk of 1:3646/23 wrote to Jerry Schwartz:


jb> Consider a thread with the following msgs linked:

jb> 2  4  6  8

jb> I reply to msg #4, creating new msg #9.  The new links look like this:

jb> 2  4  8    9
jb>       ^ -> - - - - - <-^

jb> Msg #4 now points forward to #9 and #9 points back to #4.

jb> Msg #6 still correctly points back to #4 but 4 doesn't point to #6 any 
jb> more.

jb> Msgs #8 and #9 don't get properly linked.

jb> With #6 as the 'current msg', cursor-left followed by cursor-right will 
jb> land up at msg #9.

jb> Clear as mud? :)

Soitenly!  Actually, i rarely use links because they tend to be useless. 
When a week's worth of echomail gets linked in order of tossing, threads
are not pretty.  Even if you link by REPLY kludge lines,  they're hard to
follow.

By the way, I've noticed since switching to Squish bases that
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