Re: List Rules -- How about gmane?
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
There was a discussion about moving from a listserver format to a
news
format last month, and there were a bunch of people who were against
that because they simply don't like going to a news reader to look at
these messages.
That being said, gmane does give people the flexibility to decide if
they want to use it or not.
If any particular posters prefer email, more power to them; I never meant
to say otherwise. But there is a difference in that you may not get the
usual welcome message -- or not know to save it where you can find it.
[....]
The most recent subject we have been discussing is the concept of
changing a subject line to indicate a resolution for a problem. While
that might work in a forum type environment, it still causes there to
be multiple threads resulting from the same issue. Even gmane breaks
threads like this sometimes.
OK, that's news to me. I've certainly seen threads it didn't break, where
the post beginning with [SOLVED] really stands out; I'm sorry to hear
that the other kind happens. I wonder what determines which ....
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