Re: One another trick

T.M. Sommers wrote:

And you were the one complaining that changing the subject line
breaks threading in some newsreaders.

Yeah, the /// does exactly that, and I still complain about it. If you
want to post an off-topic message, post a new message, duh. If you want
to post a relevant message, don't change the subject, duh. This sounds
logical and will look good on most newsgroup readers worldwide,
including the websites with collected newsgroup messages, or
mailing-lists.

It isn't, but this thread drifted into considering the general
case of changed subject lines.

As the original post states as a trick, so it's not off topic. Maybe it
was convenient for you to make it look like it ? Read again the
original post : he's talking about Randall Hyde posting /// in his
newsgroup messages. It was clearly understandable, I don't see why you
are so confused about all this..

You are supposed to snip signatures when replying.

Lot of "suppositions" from your side, yet nothing to back you up; Point
me to a FAQ or anything close related to the Usenet Netiquette ( which
I already read btw ) which states that "changing subject is the good
way to handle out of topic posts" or "when replying you must strip
signatures". There is nothing like that as far as I read, but maybe you
have a Usenet Netiquette I haven't read yet ?

I generally dislike it when this is done publicly, but you have
shown yourself to be a special case, so ...

I don't try to look special; I'm not the one changing my posts subject
;-)

*plonk*

Welcome back to the kindergarten !
Seriously though, you are wrong and you know it, but you keep on
replying non-sense, believing you are right; I see no more reason to
answer you any further.


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

Since you were talking about signatures :
1) Nobody cares of your real life name
2) Nobody cares of your email adress, since it should be on your
"Reply-To"
3) AB2SB is a great ASCII sequence, but once again, nobody cares

So I suggest you strip your own signature, to make it more "Usenet
friendly", like this :

-- Thomas

Cheers
K

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