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Bob Young wrote: |
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> Joe Menola wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote: |
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>>> I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. It's an |
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>>> *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people are using |
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>>> an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages posted |
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>>> to the list. With all modern email clients that I know of, it's |
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>>> absolutely trivial to filter/delete/ignore messages in a specific |
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>>> thread. Given that, it's not like anyone not interested in a particular |
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>>> thread is being forced to read or even *manually* deal with unwanted |
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>>> messages. |
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>>> |
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>> Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic |
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>> might be further discussed... |
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> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is |
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> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message |
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> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message |
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> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about? |
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Well, I got tired of this thread also. The problem is that there isn't |
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(or I can't find) an "ignore thread" feature in thunderbird, seamonkey |
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or mozilla e-mail clients. I would appreciate if someone shows me how to |
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do it. |
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Thanks in advance! |
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