Thunderbird shows these messages as threaded (very nice). On 10/20/2010 4:25 PM, Casper Bang wrote: > Staying on topic can be hard. I suspect Google deemed threads too > complicated, but I actually miss the old days of usenet where a > discussion could fork and you could let it be if it was of no interest > to you. Some forums have moderators to detach OT stuff, but since this > group is largely unmoderated by the owners and highly dynamic in > content, that's bound to happen. (You guys using mail readers which > supports threading via Reply-to id's, are discussions shown threaded?) > > On Oct 20, 5:20 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I really love this mailing list. For everything, ranging from >> highly-geekly discussions to humour and digressions about how to >> pronounce "ye" in Old English, through dissertations of the patents >> world or Scala. Really. I'm not using any blacklist for topics or >> senders; my only problem is time (not only for this mailing list, but >> for all my email), so when I'm in time shortage I just decimate threads, >> deciding that I won't follow those having topics that are not in my >> primary interests - or sometimes sacrificing those that are, but I >> really can't follow. OTOH I usually commit to read all the messages in a >> thread that I've started to track, much more if I even participated in it. >> >> So, you should understand the bit of frustration e.g. returning home >> after five days of no-connections, and finding that most of the new >> messages in the thread "Excellent article about Google's..." were either >> about Old English "ye", or JavaScript and double usage. But I did >> discover a useful, in-topic contribution about FOSS, patents and >> standards, that I would have missed if I deleted everything on the spot. >> >> I'm not asking to restrict the range of arguments here - wouldn't be >> just possible to apply the old, sane rules of email? Such as changing >> the subject when a digression is no more temporary (e.g. "JavaScript and >> doubles - was: Re: Excellent article....")? Thanks :-) >> >> -- >> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager >> Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." >> java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people >> [email protected]
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