From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T02:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to read/write an int in binary form to a file? [THREAD RENAME NOTICE]

On 11/27/05, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:
> Hello speechexpert,
>
> Your message entitled "How to read/write an int in binary form to a
> file?" was sent in reply to a message with a different subject.  You
> probably intended to start a new thread; however, your mailer, like
> most MUAs, tricked you by including a References: header field which
> points back to the original message.
>
> Therefore, your new message is still threaded under the original
> subject, instead of your new subject.  Unfortunately, this can cause
> your message to get lost in a completely unrelated thread!
>
> In the future, if you'd like to start a new thread, please compose a
> NEW message to ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>

Can we *please* have these messages STOPPED?

Frankly, if your mailer isn't smart enough to recognise that a change
of subject often represents a change of thread *even if the references
are maintained*, then your mailer needs to be fixed, too.

There's a delicate balance between the two, and just because your
mailer is as broken as speechexpert's is no excuse for you to post
nonsensical asinine messages like this.

-austin
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