Why don't you respect the mail threads?!

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 03:36:08PM -0500, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: Hey, I hope you do not mean that I am showing others who is smartest or even attacking them. My language might happen to be (perceived by others as) harsh, because I have barbaric worldview and eat raw meat, but I am very far from attacking or showing that I am oh so smart. Well, you will have to take my word on it, because I am not going to let you open my head :-) . Otherwise, yes, meta-thread-jacking is interesting - it shows that people really like to jack everything and there is no escape from it. This is why I have given up on regulating aspects of the net (say, breaking threads), at least as long as it depends on other people's behaviour (of course, they/some will misbehave, no escape) - but, as soon as the mails come to my hard drive, I can regulate however I please. So, provided I can program my way around my small bubble, the problem of threads is a small one (but quite interesting from algorithm side). Thus I usually do not make much fuss about the issue (anymore), with exception of breaking threads - they break my own reading experience _and_ they stay broken in the archive (AFAIK). Searching the archive, public or personal, which seems to be partly the motivation behind starting this very subthread - I think it needs to be done by whole body lookup anyway, so even if some offtopic discussion starts under "Pictures", the damage is (probably) minimal, because Subject lines are, to me at least, merely a kind of fuzzy tags, loosely connected to message bodies. And I think it is ok to change the Subject of subthread if the message body is too far from original thread, but keeping it as part of original thread has some merits, because it shows logical flow of discussion. But, again, this flow can be recreated with some (yet nonexistent but possible) tools, so I do not feel the need to have very strong opinion about what other people should do. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **