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|    mark lewis to August Abolins    |
|    oops.. no subject, and killing threads    |
|    17 Apr 19 06:35:20    |
      REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d78021ab       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5cb701eb       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15               On 2019 Apr 17 00:29:00, you wrote to me:               AA>>> But apologies for missing a Subject in the original post! Apoint        AA>>> did not seem to have a warning for that.               ml>> no apology needed here... i rarely ever look at the message        ml>> headers... 99.999% of the time, i only look at the next message        ml>> body... maybe once in a while i'll look at the header to see who        ml>> wrote to whom but that's just being nosey :lol:               AA> Hmmm.. Yes, I find most people are lazy and don't even "adjust" the        AA> subject to reflect the content. Instead you'll find reply after        AA> reply, veering off-the-original-topic quickly and no one bothers to        AA> update the subject line! :(              yet another strike against subject line sorting and ordering... i've always       tossed the mail as it arrived and never sorted it... with a proper reader       capable of MSGID/REPLY linking, you can walk through the branches of a thread       quite easily...               AA> But I sure am glad that threading is maintained in modern readers, so        AA> as to "kill" or skip a thread if desired. Not sure how to do that in        AA> this oxp, but in t-bird it is a great feature.              in the BBS world, you use the [NEXT] key or a twit filter ;)              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 57/0 123/1970 153/250 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/17 229/107       SEEN-BY: 229/354 426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 267/800 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 292/854 310/31 317/2 3 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 712/848 770/0 1 10 100 330 340 772/0 1 500 2452/250       PATH: 3634/12 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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