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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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> Some might stay tuned in the unlikely event that the original topic might be |
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> 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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Regards |
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Bob Young |
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