From: Joel VanderWerf <skeeler@...>
Date: 2001-04-29T08:40:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14394] Re: Separating the wheat from the chaff.


What would help me separate different kinds of wheat (no chaff on this  
list :) is a different standard for subject headers, maybe with the number 
at the end.

For some reason the two news readers I've been using, netscape and knode, 
don't thread comp.lang.ruby messages very well (maybe due to the mirroring 
with ruby-talk?). I also subscribe to ruby-talk and have the same threading 
problem with mail readers.

I'd like to be able to sort by subject, but with those dang 
/\[ruby-talk:\d+\]/ thingies, it's worse than sorting by date.

Solving this problem would make it easier to skip uninteresting messages. 
In principle, I could write a filter (in ruby, of course) to process 
ruby-talk messages so that they can be sorted by subject. But that's not 
newbie-friendly.

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Joel VanderWerf
skeeler@sirius.com