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Originally posted by Undertoad
It's more up to us to stay on topic, and start a new thread if we want to discuss something off-topic. And that's something we oughta just get in the habit of doing, if just for the sake of the newbies.
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The whole area of quoting, thread-spawning and cross-reference on th ecurrent incarnation of the Cellar is ripe for further development. It's a PITA to do an ordinary interlinear quote-and-reposte such as was common in the heyday of the Cellar a-la-Waffle. And with all the Cellar content server based, a cross-reference to another post or thread should be an easy thing to do...at *least* as easy as a reference to a page at external site. Poor Jag is reduced to "nine posts down on page three". That sux.
So now I'm going to spawn this thread to the "Cellar comments" forum....let's see how hard that is....
Well, I
I spawned a new thread, and was able to link it from here. But I couldn't backlink to this specific post, even though I know the postid. So we have enough granularity to point to another thread, but not to a specific post.