On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:06:28 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Re: Threads changing  Was: OT: website design:

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> By the way, your reply started a new thread, either yours or the 
> previous message broke something.

That's because I was replying to Mick's message from the NNTP server
news.eternal-september.org.  It is downstream from bofh.it.

This reply should not break threading, as I am replying to your message
received directly from the mailing list. [I have switched my
subscription from "nomail" to "mail".]

> I'm not quite so confused now.  This didn't help any:
> 
> Bastard Operator From Hell (/BOFH/)

Well, if you read the BOFH stories, you will find that the central
character has a penchant for treating users with contempt.

> This is another way of reading that but there may be a few ladies on 
> here.  ;-)  I now realize that you are talking about a news server 
> thingy.  lol  Cleared up a little mud at least.  lol

Well, I'm glad we have sorted out the mystery.  I don't know if we can
get the sysadmin to fix the rogue newsserver.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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