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

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 19:05:41 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Chris Cunnington <
smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> ------------------------------**-----------------------------
>> Louis LaBrunda
>> Keystone Software Corp.
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>> mailto:Lou at Keystone-Software.**com <Lou at Keystone-Software.com>
>> http://www.Keystone-Software.**com <http://www.Keystone-Software.com>
>>
>>
>>  Thanks, Lou. But resistance is futile. I've been assimilated. :o


Thanks!!


>
>
> Chris
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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