Re: People missing out on good conversatoins

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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