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Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Bob Young wrote: |
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>> Sorry, I just honestly don't see the any cause of major inconvenience |
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>> or damage (aka "mess") here. I'm sure that there must be examples of |
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>> threads that were completely "on topic" but you personally were not |
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>> interested in, obviously you dealt with those threads in some fashion. |
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>> Why is it so difficult to deal with the occasional OT thread the same |
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>> way, especially when it's clearly marked? |
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>> It's not like the list is overrun with OT threads, nor do I see any |
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>> indication that the list is likely to be overrun with OT messages in |
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>> the future. |
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> There is no major problem. It's that I (for example) just lost my |
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> interest in the "slaveryware drift" some time ago and now I find it |
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> annoying to see "there are 3 new messages in AMD64" and to discover they |
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> are "oh..in that thread again". So I mark the thread as read and resume |
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> with previous occupation. If I had a simple way to ignore the thread and |
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> check it at will, say once a week, it would be perfect. |
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> Here we can see one of the advantages of the web forums over the mailing |
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> lists - in case like this the moderators in a web forum could just |
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> change the title of the thread and move it into some "chit-chat" |
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> category, dedicated for OTs. |
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Okay, fair enough, but how exactly how and why is that so different from |
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3 new messages showing up that are "on topic" but that you personnally |
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have no interest in reading? In that case wouldn't the end result be |
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exactly the same namely that you would "discover they are "oh..about |
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that subject" then you would mark the thread as read and resume with |
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previous occupation." Unless I'm missing something, the *only* |
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difference is whether the topic qualifies as being in a particular and |
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somewhat subjective catagory. |
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Given your opinion I'm curious as to why you would change the subject, |
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and in so doing defeat the efforts of the people who might have been |
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filtering on the "slaveryware drift" subject line. |
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BTW For everyone else out there....feel free to post something on topic, |
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this OT thread is already very near it's natural death, some on topic |
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posts will probably put the final nail in the coffin. |
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Regards |
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Bob Young |
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Regards |
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Bob Young |
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