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I think I can do this relatively easily. It would mean a vB code edit in newreply.php and, as you mentioned, a complete new template set. Although it will still work without templates and would depend on whether you clicked the 'Reply' or the 'Quote' button.

I agree that it would be better this way. In fact I seriously considered switching to wwwThreads and write the hack for that board instead. It allows each site visitor to switch between in-line and threaded view. That way you could see the usenet posts in a threaded format too. The thing that stopped me was the lack flexible custom templates via templates.

Anyway, I'll see if I can get it working this weekend. I'll make it a global control panel option.