From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T04:16:27+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!


>
> The nice thing about threads is that they act as natural containment
> boundaries for off-topicness. It's both cheap and easy to ignore
> things at the level of a thread, and the incremental offtopicity of a
> post in an already off-topic thread approaches zero.
>
> (Srsly, and without sarcasm, if you don't have a threaded
> mail/newsreader, you don't know what you're missing out on. It makes a
> *huge* efficiency difference.)
>

That, and having bayesian anti-SPAM makes it relatively easy to 
automatically flag trolls and park them in the Junk folder (this is a 
relatively efficient poor-man's killfile for people without procmail).

Damn, I actually posted in this thread, I'll have to take a shower now...

Lionel