[squeak-dev] Re: Re: First green ball

Chris Cunnington smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 18:31:31 UTC 2012


On 12-08-02 2:28 PM, Louis LaBrunda wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:35:37 -0700, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Chris Cunnington <
>> smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't actually use a mail client. I read the Archive and cut and paste
>>> new messages. I don't press Reply. Only Send.
>> Doing this is a pain.  It causes your replies to start a new thread in the
>> readers the vast majority of us use.  Why don't you use a mail reader?
> Sorry to be off topic but to stick up for Chris: I use Forte Agent, a
> combination email client and news reader.  I follow this thread from the
> newsgroup "gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general" (not as email) but
> from the news reader part of Forte Agent.  Forte Agent groups ALL the
> messages of this thread as one thread.  Chris's subject lines are "First
> green ball", Frank and Bert's are "Re: First green ball" and all are
> grouped as one thread.  Don't ask me how Forte Agent does it but it does.
>
> I expect this post will be "Re: Re: First green ball" because I am replying
> to Eliot's post.  I hope it does not start a new thread, I'm sure it won't
> for me.  If I could wave a magic wand, I would just get rid of all the
> "Re:" stuff as it often becomes a long "Re: Re: Re: Re:" (and some times
> with the "Re:" equivalent from some language other than English) and adds
> nothing to the understanding of the subject.  And if they get long enough,
> can push the subject out of view.
>
> Anyway, sorry for the rant but lets not be too hard on Chris.
>
> Lou
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> Louis LaBrunda
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>
>
Thanks, Lou. But resistance is futile. I've been assimilated. :o

Chris


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