* Chris K. Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000906 08:24]:
> Quoted from Robin S. Socha:
> > Oh. And *don't* use reply if you want to start a new thread.
And don't start a new thread if you're changing the subject... Like, if
you were using Gnus, you could be using this:
http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer/resources/emacs/message-utils.el.gz
;; This file contains some small additions to message mode:
;; * inserting files in a message and explicit marking it
;; as something somebody else has created,
;; * change Subject: header and add (was: <old subject>)
;; * strip (was: <old subject>) from Subject: headers
;; * add a X-No-Archive: Yes header and a note in the body
;; * a function for cross-post and followup-to messages
;; * replace To: header with contents of Cc: or Bcc: header.
[...]
> There was also another debate on that list, about why I think mail
> client authors should make hierarchical threading the default. Then
> when people make ``alien threads'' (as I called them), they'd see
> the egregious mistake they made.
Well, there is a cure for that: Gnus. One could argue endlessly whether
it is morally OK to spend valuable programming time to make up for the
deficiences of primitive commercial software. But kicking Wintendo
lusers is only fun for a limited amount of time (I've gathered from
years of field experiments that OS release numbers and their users' IQs
are reversely proportional (yup, running OpenBSD here...)) so you always
end up writing demoronizing tools for their stuff. I wonder if a decent
TCO would come up with something like "nuking Redmond will increase the
world's productivity by 900%".
