Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:32:46PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:47:15 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine
> thusly:
> > On Saturday 25 June 2011 01:09:31 David W Noon wrote:
> > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:12:26 -0700, kashani wrote about
> > > [gentoo-user]

> > > Don't start a new thread by changing the subject:
> > > > 	I've noticed this a couple of times this week. A few of
> > > > 	you

> > > > have responded to the annoying Fortran thread, changed the
> > > > subject, started a new message, and sent the email starting
> > > > a new thread.

> > > You're a week or two behind the times.  The root cause of this
> > > was done to death some time ago.  It is the bofh.it NNTP server
> > > that propagates this mailing list through Usenet.  There is
> > > nothing we can do except avoid using servers downstream from
> > > that rogue server.

> > completely different problem.

> > there are:

> > lazy idiots hitting 'reply' and then create a new message breaking
> > threads. Suddenly you have a misnamed subthread confusing everybody
> > or annoy me.

> > stupid servers mangling headers breaking threads so answers create
> > new threads.

> > Of course, those who use usenet servers for gentoo-ml are to be
> > blamed for the second problem. Is there any good, valid reason to
> > do so?

> Lots of good reasons - usenet has been around for yonks, mailing lists
> work like usenet groups, users would like to use an nntp app to read
> ml mail. Good motivation to write proper gateways.

As a matter of interest, posting to gentoo-user via NNTP seems to be
blocked by the moderation software.  At least it was a few weeks ago when
I tried to post that way.

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