[buug] mail threading

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Sun Oct 4 12:07:02 PDT 2009


Pewter Bot:
> http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2009-October/thread.html
> 
> In fact, that's you, Nick. In the first case, the subject header was
> identical, yet thread seems to be broken anyway. In another case on
> that same page, it's because you changed the title, even though
> subject matter was identical. (Interesting that no one has complained
> to you about your *two* broken links thus far in October, vs. my
> *one*.)

Dude, that's pipermail breaking the thread at the month boundary.

[tiresome defense of digest mode snipped]
> Nick: I'd like to know *your* opininon on not trimming quotes, and
> therefore allowing messages to get longer and longer with each
> reply...often when a responder replies with just one sentence.

I'm all for trimming quotes.  I think Rick has expressed an opinion on
the matter that very closely resembles my own.  Sorry, do you have an
example of me not trimming quoted text or something?  If so, please send
it to me off-list, because this conversation is less and less about Unix
or Berkeley or Using drugs.

-- 
Man, I love how everyone is like "In my blog, which is
a blog on the Internet, which you all may be interested
in visiting, I talked about what I am now saying here."
                            -- George Moffitt



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