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#7, RE: Megathread Prevention
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-20-01 at 05:10 PM
In response to message #6
LAST EDITED ON Nov-20-01 AT 05:11 PM (EST)

>>A better, more flexible feature would be the presence of a "start a
>>new thread with this reply" function.
>
>Not to sound dense or imply density, but how hard would it be to add
>that to the "print" statement that writes "Edit | Reply | Reply With
>Quote | Top" in every message?

I have no idea. I'm not a programmer. That is more or less the feature I was suggesting, though.

Adding it to the statement that adds the list of options is probably trivial, but unless perl is CLULESS, actually getting that option to then work would likely require some actual effort.

--G.
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