Quoted from Robin S. Socha:
> And don't start a new thread if you're changing the subject... Like, if
> you were using Gnus, you could be using this:
Actually, I usually do use the ``(was Re: foo)'' convention, keeping
within the thread. I started a new thread because I thought that the
topic diverged from the original subject matter enough, and it's off
topic enough, to warrant doing so.
In most cases, you're right, though.
> > 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.
Well, I'm going to look at Gnus some day and see if Robin S. Socha is
listed as a primary author. You seem to advertise it like I advertise
my own programs. :-)
> (I've gathered from
> years of field experiments that OS release numbers and their users' IQs
> are reversely proportional (yup, running OpenBSD here...))
Well said, well said. :-) (Join the OpenBSD fan club already...)
> so you always
> end up writing demoronizing tools for their stuff.
Yes. The most useful demoronising tool I've seen, so far, is mutt's
default behaviour of ignoring text/html attachments.
> I wonder if a decent
> TCO would come up with something like "nuking Redmond will increase the
> world's productivity by 900%".
After that, you still have AOLers to deal with...
---Chris K.
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