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This is the first I've seen or heard of RForum.  Am I the only one that 
thinks this has a different feel than all other forums?  I could 
probably live with all the tiny subtle differences, but the one that 
totally stands out is this:

Typical forums organize material in this sort of heirarchy:

Root > Forums/Categories > Topics/Threads > Posts

This RForum seems to be doing it like this:

Root > Forums > Posts

Although this is not impossible for me to wrap my head around, it just 
feels like such a radical departure from normal forum practice and 
convention.  Is this intentional?  Am I making a mountain out of a 
molehill?  :)

Otherwise, I am quite pleased to see ruby-forum.com because I have an 
aversion to mailing lists and much prefer forums.

pistos wrote:
> Typical forums organize material in this sort of heirarchy:
> 
> Root > Forums/Categories > Topics/Threads > Posts
> 
> This RForum seems to be doing it like this:
> 
> Root > Forums > Posts

No. The hierarchy is forum.topic.post. What makes you think this is 
different?

Andreas

> No. The hierarchy is forum.topic.post. What makes you think this is 
> different?

Ah, I think I see how I got confused.  In 
http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/4
threads like the Euchre thread show up multiple times, and I suspect 
it's because the fact that those posts are part of the same thread are 
not being picked up.  I shall refrain from assigning blame, because I 
don't think anyone's at fault.  It could well be that such situations 
are unavoidable when you're trying to mirror a mailing list.

Okay, carry on, carry on!  :)

Pistos

pistos wrote:
>> No. The hierarchy is forum.topic.post. What makes you think this is 
>> different?
> 
> Ah, I think I see how I got confused.  In 
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/4
> threads like the Euchre thread show up multiple times, and I suspect 
> it's because the fact that those posts are part of the same thread are 
> not being picked up.  I shall refrain from assigning blame, because I 
> don't think anyone's at fault.  It could well be that such situations 
> are unavoidable when you're trying to mirror a mailing list.

It's the fault of broken Email clients that do not set a correct 
References or In-Reply-To headers.

Andreas