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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
"phorbin" wrote in message ... Thoughts or additions anyone? I would suggest that instead of putting OT: people just put OT without the colon, as some news readers strip anything before the colon when replying. So the "OT" would not show up in some replies, and would make it through to anyone who was filtering it. --S. |
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phorbin wrote:
Which newsreader does this? IIRC, something of Micro$loth's, and only at the beginning of the message body. It's a bug they acknowledge but don't care to fix. Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
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Gary Woods wrote: phorbin wrote: Which newsreader does this? IIRC, something of Micro$loth's, and only at the beginning of the message body. It's a bug they acknowledge but don't care to fix. Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G I'd hazard a guess that the usenet reading experience varies widely for the folks here. The OT issue is trivial for me and my filtering is easy. My question. Does have OT or Off Topic in the header help folks? I usually wait for the first then just kill the tread willa bing willa bong. Bill who know what VAX notes was and archie in the day. -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...l-supplements/ |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
phorbin wrote:
says... I would suggest that instead of putting OT: people just put OT without the colon, as some news readers strip anything before the colon when replying. So the "OT" would not show up in some replies, and would make it through to anyone who was filtering it. --S. Which newsreader does this? It would appear that Suzanne's Microsoft Windows Mail does it. Being primarily an email application that happens to have NNTP functionality added on there's sense to it. In email chains the " " on the front used to build longer and longer so they took up trimming out up to the last ": " (ignoring the rest to account for Re, re, fwd and many other variations) and replacing it all with their own " ". I would not be surprised if Thunderbird also did the same thing as it is also an email application that happens to have NNTP functionality added on. Google groups was also famous for doing the same thing for years. |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
Bill who putters wrote:
Bill who know what VAX notes was and archie in the day. Then you probably know how to toggle in a loader routine in octal? Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
Bill who putters wrote:
My question. Does have OT or Off Topic in the header help folks? For me, it's something that may be interesting, though I'm fairly quick with "ignore thread" if not. Truth is, trying to impose rules on an unmoderated groups is akin to urinating upwind. I've found that a very few KF rules provide lossless compression. As somebody wisely pointed out (I'm too dang lazy to look back and see who), there's very little on this gardening group that's _truly_ OT! Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
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Gary Woods wrote: Bill who putters wrote: Bill who know what VAX notes was and archie in the day. Then you probably know how to toggle in a loader routine in octal? Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G No but my buddies Roy or Peter would. -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...l-supplements/ |
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Bill who putters wrote:
Bill who know what VAX notes was and archie in the day. Mosaic will never catch on. Gopher with pictures, it's no big deal. ;^) |
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phorbin wrote: With apologies, I think laziness is an excuse, not an option. I've probably not said this very well but I don't have the time to rework it so off it goes. I look at this and think. 21st Century Schizoid Man 7:27 King Crimson Court of the Crimson King Rock MPEG audio file 80 1969 -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...l-supplements/ |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
"phorbin" wrote in message ... In article , says... "phorbin" wrote in message ... Thoughts or additions anyone? I would suggest that instead of putting OT: people just put OT without the colon, as some news readers strip anything before the colon when replying. So the "OT" would not show up in some replies, and would make it through to anyone who was filtering it. --S. Which newsreader does this? Well, mine, for one. (I think it's Windows Mail.) Do you notice that in my original reply the OT was no longer there? there are several other replies that do not have the OT before the colon. --S. |
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Call for discussion on subjects that should be labelled OT
"Suzanne D." wrote:
"phorbin" wrote in message ... In article , says... "phorbin" wrote in message ... Thoughts or additions anyone? I would suggest that instead of putting OT: people just put OT without the colon, as some news readers strip anything before the colon when replying. So the "OT" would not show up in some replies, and would make it through to anyone who was filtering it. --S. Which newsreader does this? Well, mine, for one. (I think it's Windows Mail.) Do you notice that in my original reply the OT was no longer there? there are several other replies that do not have the OT before the colon. --S. I was wondering why I would see a separation of threads. Now I know! Microsoft and their crappy software. Glad i have a Mac. OT without the colon then. Does your mail program also remove the colons from RE and FW's from eMails as also? -- Enjoy Life... Dan L (Garden in zone 5a Michigan) |
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