[ale] Request to Reduce Off Topic Posts

[James Sumners]

Tell it to Google.

But really, it doesn't make sense to change the subject of an email to
start a new thread. If you have a different topic to talk about then
start a new thread. "Was this" and "Used to be that" parentheticals
are just as annoying as having to re-mute the thread.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I do support, to whatever degree that matters coming from a
> fresh subscriber, less off-topic posts, do you really want to make
> rules based on the inadequacy of some people's email clients, or their
> ability to use them? Which is to say, having to mute the same thread
> multiple times because someone changed the subject simply indicates
> that your client has poor threading support (probably ignoring the
> In-Reply-To header).



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James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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