From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-04-17T19:11:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie Ruby and C question Austin Ziegler writes: > On 4/16/05, Eric Hodel wrote: >> On 15 Apr 2005, at 15:53, Dave Sims wrote: >> [some stuff] >> Please don't hijack threads by using your reply button and replacing >> the subject. Sensible mailers such as yours add In-Reply-To and >> References headers that cause responses to your hijacking attempt to be >> intermixed with the original thread. >> >> Modern mailers have 'new' buttons and address books for a reason. > > Eric, > > To be honest, this is tiresome and unfriendly to users -- especially > new users. And hijacking threads is tiresome to regulars here, which have to cope with large volumes of mail in an effective way. BTW, "Outlook" quoting (TOFU style) is even more annoying, use inline quoting as every sane person does. And please don't fullquote a 512 line article just to respond with 8 lines. http://www.golyr.de/Dan-Bern/songtext/283104_Fascist-in-Me.htm > -austin -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org