kim asks some very serious questions. I would like to respond web 2+
style, but since rich-text formatting seems impossible on this mailing
list, please accept instead interlineations within kim's messager

--- In blogging4educators@yahoogroups.com, "jerusalem8610"
<jerusalem8610@...> wrote:

> ok. let's say i read the 40 comments on a post. then a few days
> later i want to reread the conversation, from when i wrote till now.

If you read them first on one computer, then login from another
(home/work) Yahoo! apparently fails to recognize, or mark, the messages
that you've read already

> from what i understand, i have to either read the most recent to
> when i wrote or i have to scroll down to where i wrote and then use
> my cursor to scroll up as i read comments going from when i last
> wrote to the most recent.
>
> so, is this correct?

That depends upon whether you are viewing messages in your email
program, or reading message on site
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blogging4educators/> . On site you have
the option of sorting messages by date, or by thread. Threads work only
if responses match message topics and foci.

In threaded view (on-site), if you scroll down past the message that you
have selected, you should see it highlighted in a subordinated list of
messages and replies to the (nominal) original message in the thread
that you are perusing. If you wish to respond to a particular message in
that thread, please open that message, and then click on reply. If you
do that, and edit the subject heading as necessary, your message should
thread properly and catch the attention of anyone concerned.

Cheers, Paul
>
> i find the blog comment section very tiresome because unlike a
> thread dialogue i have to scroll upwards to capture the conversation
> as it really developed, making it cumbersome. with threads i can
> read and then hit the previous/next button, which is easier.
>
> so does anyone also find this cumbersome? is there an alternative
> way to add comments to a blog so that once can easily track the
> conversation from any post to the most current without always having
> to scroll up as reading?
>
> also, the way this works makes the converation be like swiss cheese.
> a reader can read the most recent comment only and comment on that
> or he can comment on a post much earlier and then his comment will
> have nothing to do with the comment right before it.
>
> i just don't find the comment section very advanced or do i not know
> how it works?
>
> thanks, kim
>




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