From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T22:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread.abort_on_exception default to true

Roger Pack wrote:
> In this instance, I don't want to join on the thread because I am not 
> concerned about when it finishes--it doesn't matter to me, and I don't 
> want to wait for it as it would slow up processing my next request. 
> Therefore the exception is forgotten.

You don't care if or when it finishes, but you also don't mind if it 
crashes your main program by raising an asynchronous exception?
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