Re: Troll 1, Usenet 0
From: Ken Pledger (Ken.Pledger_at_mcs.vuw.ac.nz)
Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:28:58 +1200
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<56e8842f4cd050a1bb7ada4707cc77bb.48257@mygate.mailgate.org>,
"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
> "Daryl McCullough" <daryl@atc-nycorp.com> wrote:
>
> > So maybe we should introduce a notation to mean a Peter Olcott thread.
> > Maybe
> > there could be a single subject, such as "That Peter Olcott Thread", or
> > maybe
> > we could just make sure every Peter Olcott thread have a title that starts
> > with [PO].
>
> Won't help. Over in sci.math, there's been a poster bot running for at
> least a year now that tags every original posting by Jams Harris with
> "JSH" in the subject line, reposts the article, and forge-cancels the
> original. To no avail....
I disagree. By killing every message whose title begins with
[JSH] I see hardly anything to or from James Harris. The practice of
putting [JSH] before the title of anything concerning him was originally
adopted by other people as a voluntary courtesy towards the rest of us.
I appreciate it very much.
Ken Pledger.
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