At 02:09 PM 8/5/00 -0700, Bill Cole wrote:
>Thanks for info. Obviously threadmarkers were thought out well. Some
>thoughts follow.
Yeesh. I post a multiple paragraph post with a nearly identical
explanation after you ask, and you ignore it and Julian gets a
thanks? What am I, chopped liver? :)
>Eye scan of threadmarkers is helpful only if they aren't dropped at end of
>long Subjects; and even then they are unnatural. (You are right about the
>Re: intrusion at the front but that seems minor.) I'd rather see
>descriptive subjects even if they run on very long.
I can say that it's not an issue on various newsgroups I've seen. Even
with groups that used like TAN: ;to mark tangential threads.
Michelle
Flutist
