Re: People missing out on good conversatoins

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:11:44 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2003.09.05.23.11.44.328998@terra.com.br>

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:47:00 +0100, Paul Vernon wrote:

> 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?

Re:, and it is not about "old" newsreaders only.

I am using a spanking new Gnome Pan, and I ask it to change threads when the subject line changes. So it has to be Re: in order to avoid breaking threads.

Was: is a human convention for changing threads while giving info about where in Earth did the current thread came from.

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

What else?

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