When reporting past communication, four aspects are relevant:
when it took place, who had initiated it, to whom her or him
addresses to, and on which matter. Simply "Date, From, To &
Subject", like in the sentence "Last week, John told his wife
that te roof of their house had to be repaired.".
Alas, on Nabble pages, the most relevant information is missing:
the date of entries is not displayed! E.g., on Thu, 18 Aug 2016
06:42 GMT the page
http://support.nabble.com/ shows as following:
Sub-Forums & Topics (612) Replies Last Post Views
Free Support (5635 topics) 23441 by Godfather
Nabble Latest Features (27 topics) 132 by Hugo <Nabble>
NAML (28 topics) 309 by Pedro <Nabble>
IP logging on Nabble Forum by mopsnetwork 9 by Hugo <Nabble>
Requesting Footer Removal by mopsnetwork 3 by Hugo <Nabble>
Blank White Backround by Spacedout 3 by Hugo <Nabble>
Bug Report: Change of Address by 1 by Hugo <Nabble>
Administrator by GregChapman
Bug: "0 New Posts" Digests Being Received 4 by GregChapman
When Posts Exist by GregChapman
Improving Wording On Mail List Archives by 2 by GregChapman
GregChapman
[...]
Similar display with
http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/.
Entries' dates can at most be guessed indirectly, by quotes like
"On 28/07/2016 7:45 a.m., John P. wrote [...]".
Up to september 2014, Squid Mailing List messages were stored at
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/ as well. The latest
of these pages
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/201409/properly shows the snapshot's start and ending.
In Mailing Lists, only text information is relevant. There is thus
no reason to use "fat clients" for displaying content. For subscription,
I was forced to use one of these to see the Captcha's content. Nabble
pages often use JavaScript.
While reasonable to preserve usability (i.e. to avoid the site being
spammed), I cannot imagine any security-relevant aspect in hiding
messages' *dates* behind JavaScript functions.
Please, change the behaviour of the the site, make the information
stored herein more useable by no longer suppressing relevant data.
Or, provide an alternative layout for "thin clients" which show
messages' dates at a glance. Popular Web-Mailers offer alternative
Logins for Mobile Accounts with slightly restricted functionality.
All data is there, no data missing. A suggestion for Nabble!
Regards Torsten Kuehn, Weil am Rhein/ Basel
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Aug 18, 2016; 12:26pm
