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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <6220@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Sep 89 21:11:17 GMT
References: <2454@auspex.auspex.com> <13666@well.UUCP> <2461@auspex.auspex.com> <15787@looking.on.ca>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <15787@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> It would be very useful to use the full tree.  You can get rid of, or more
> to the point, deliberately follow, interesting subtrees ...

I have used tree-based messaging systems.  One was, I believe, Communitree,
a forth-based system.  The other was an experimental package on PLATO.
I felt they were confusing and easy to get lost in.  I thought that PLATO's 
solid, "standard" base-message-and-list-of-responses was less confusing.
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