Re: Newsreaders (was Re: One another trick)

T.M. Sommers wrote:

I don't think any RFC dictates how newsreaders are to display
messages.

Then what's the reference document I have missed ?
To me, RFC is the main candidate for checking the conventions of a
given standard.

Best not to use such broken interfaces.

Everybody can use the interface he/she likes, you can't say "let's
ignore those users, because they use a broken interface", it's often
not that easy.

The convention is to change the subject line when the topic
drifts too far from the original topic, as I have done here.

Show me where you got that "convention" please, I'm interested.

Actually, he is trying to avoid annoying many people.

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Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@xxxxxx -- AB2SB

By annoying another ones with the /// bad looking subjects ?
By imposing his own thinking to newsgroup readers who don't need him to
dictate what to read or not ?

Sorry but I don't agree, maybe you like people to decide for you what
to read or not. I don't.

Cheers
K

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