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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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Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic might be |
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further discussed... |
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-jm |
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