I would like vBulletin to have a threaded mode as well.
I think that a true threaded view is a good thing. Although some threads are merely a lot of replies to the original poster, many others evolve into quite a long conversation with, well, many different threads. Having a threaded view will help people traverse these children topics rather than each poster needing to quote the other person in order to carry over the context of the conversation.
Threaded mode need not involve separate pages for each message. Check out <
http://www.dslreports.com/comments/1050> for an example of a threaded forum that shows all of the messages in one page...
[Edited by akiy on 07-25-2000 at 01:49 AM]