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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 ;)   
      
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