From: Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>
Date: 2001-01-12T02:03:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9147] Re: time to divide -talk?

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:40:02AM +0900, Richard A.Schulman wrote:
> "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > And of course switching over to using a newsgroup rather than using a mail
> > list is another major way of dealing with this issue. Guess what one of my
> > forward-looking motivations for getting comp.lang.ruby approved was? :-)
> 
> Agreed. That's exactly what I did when I began to get too
> many emails from the ruby-talk mailing list -- I switched to
> comp.lang.ruby and configured my news reader to sort the
> ruby messages by thread. That way I can easily delete the
> threads I'm not interested in.
> 
> Now that the subject headings of comp.lang.ruby posts are no
> longer prefixed by serial ruby-talk numbers, any decent news
> reader should be able to sort by thread.

as should any decent mail reader, as long as people don't missbehave.
people on this list sometimes seems to do so. instead of composing a new mail
from scratch people replies to an old mail, deletes message-body, uses a new
title and posts. this f*ucks up mailheaders and thus makes threading MUAs
"missbehave". PLEASE stop doing this!

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