From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-01-08T00:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: the [ruby-talk] is gone?

On 1/7/02 5:46 AM, "Thomas Hurst" <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote:

> * Jack Dempsey (dabigdemp@hotmail.com) wrote:
> 
>> Why is it gone? kinda hard to organize the e-mails now...
> 
> They upset threading if you set your client to create new threads on
> subject changes (unless your client also lets you configure what
> constitutes a subject change), and they waste space otherwise taken up
> with the subject.
> 
> There's no good reason to filter on subject for mailing list messages;
> there are plenty of other headers which make such filtering much more
> accurate.  If speed is an issue for you, well, sorry, blame your
> software, not the list.
> 
> matz, thanks, you rule[tm].

I have to agree with Thomas here. The new way is *much* nicer. There seems
to be plenty of info in the headers to do anything anyone would want.
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