Hi JR,

2011/7/3 JR van Rensburg <[email protected]>

> [...]
> Ah, but you have to admit it got everyone's juices flowing - I've never
>

no question about it, I only mentioned that there are some rules the
community wrote down several years ago to ease the way of communication and
that this work for decades.

seen a thread attract so much traffic in such a short space of time. ;)
>

As I said, I already participate in several news groups back in mid of the
1990s and I can confirm, the discussions about the correct way of replaying
to a message was already part of the discussions in this time. And the
discussion was much more emotional than the mails here on the list ;).

Perhaps it was seen as a welcome break and a thread to let off steam on
> all sides of the argument, something a list server was not designed to
> do.
>

That's a good point, let's go back to technical problems and solutions :).

Regards, Thomas

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