Most threads go too long. Because the 20-30 are doing nothing but repeating each other. I suspect it’s because they are “networking”.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 4:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:18:22 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > > An interesting topic, even if not directly on-topic (the other "OT"). > Thanks for the research. List behavior should be a valid metatopic. One recent ply begins with "Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXT] Re:". If I were emperor of the RFCs, I'd decree that o All agent-added prefixes be bracketed and ignored for threading. (with an escape convention, of course.) Kirk had a valid complaint. The "XYZZY" thread went too long, and it was far from worst this month. (I confess I responded with one audio link.) And I've seen no good explanation for "&&TEMPDSN" Try: "<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Info&body=INFO%20IBM-MAIN%0D%0AThanks%0D%0A>" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
