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 .... -- Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1 & YDL 4.0 Pine 4.62, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.1; Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0 Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about.
