Sometimes respondents to MSUNAG discussion threads include the entire
thread history, sometimes they do not. Including the entire history
helps when a later reader needs to see (and perhaps respond to) the
fuller context, OTOH it gets in the way for other readers. Of
course, one may always go on the web to the MSUNAG archive at
http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MSUNAG and look up past thread
entries, but that can present a bit of a barrier.
MSUNAG messages already include links to List-Archive, etc. How
about if messages also included a link directly to the message in the
archive? Google Groups does something like this for one of the
professional Groups that I participate in, makes it real easy to go
back to the full thread. Of course this will not work quite as well
for extended threads on the MSUNAG archive because it splits up each
thread by month instead of maintaining each thread as a whole, but it
would still be an improvement.
Just a thought,
-- dkm
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