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With version 1.9, there is a maxDisplayDepth option
that limits the depth of display of the tree of
responses. The actual tree may be deeper.
A simple extension of this idea might do most of what
you want. Instead of a single number, a
list of numbers could be used at each level, and if
a 0 is used, that means no further responses are allowed
below that level. The last number would be repeated at
lower levels, and if the last number were 0, of course
no further responses would be allowed all the way down.
We should be able to add this easily on a per base-article
basis.
There are other issues, however. If you mean that the
single list is to be used in such a way that each response
is in response to the preceeding response, then users
may be confused by the fact that each response will
say it is a response to the top level base article.
I don't want to change the basic structure that is
built around a tree, even if it is a flat tree. Mixing
nested responses with chained responses will lead to
even more confusion.
However, I could imagine dynamically altering the display
of responses to use a flattened list when there is only
one response but nest when there is more than one response.
It would have to be made clear which is being used.
Adding programs to automatically post responses should
not be too difficult. We should make it more obvious
for people how they could do that.
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Not configurable enough yet 
