People missing out on good conversatoins

From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:47:00 +0100
Message-ID: <bj7qfg$19s2$1@gazette.almaden.ibm.com>

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_ywho.com> wrote in message news:kLJ5b.11$FM5.132_at_news.oracle.com...
>
> "Niels Muller Larsen" <nml_at_acm.org> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.53.0309041615100.1359_at_nmlinux.localdomain...
> > have a distinct tendency to depart (by miles) the original subject
> > line. Wouldn't it be a great idea to initialize new threads when the
> > subject has changed.
> >
> > That's why the founding fathers invented the subject line, I beleive.
> >
> > If you read the group only once every two or threee days you're lost
> > when reading "Plural or singular table names" or "does a table always
> > need a PK".
>
> Very true. I, for example, am not reading threads like "Plural or singular
> table names" even though the discussion maybe steered into something worthy.
>

Points taken.

Is there not something about old newsreaders threading message via the subject line and so needing it always to be Re: something or Was: something?

Of course, maybe what we need is something that is not a newsgroup at all.

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Thu Sep 04 2003 - 11:47:00 CDT