Re: [avr-gcc-list] OT Generic C question

[David Kelly]

On Sep 20, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Jeff Barlow wrote:

> Internet email is gradually degrading due to lame software and
> clueless users.

Yes, that is exactly why I wrote. To alert the clueless. Apparently  
the clueless cherish their cluelessness, but that was nothing new.

Yes, the "messages are still threaded." Gmail has nothing on anything  
here. The point is that the messages are in the *wrong* thread. Its  
purely to the advantage of the poster to break a new topic out of an  
old thread and start fresh.

Another advantage of proper threading is list archive search. Much  
more likely to find useful information when searching an archive  
which is properly threaded. Then again list archive searching is  
another lost art.

On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> But in the end, people deploying that kind of laziness will simply cut
> theirselves off from people who might be willing to reply: If I kill
> an entire thread as I'm not interested in it, and deep in that thread
> appears a new question -- ce la vive.  I won't be able to answer that
> new question as I won't see it at all.

Some find it hard to believe others might tie their shoes  
differently. Same applies here as I expect many don't understand how  
what Joerg said above could be true. Many of us open this mailbox  
with threads collapsed under one entry. "That old tired thread? Kill  
it. Next." Your query was deleted unseen because it was filed wrong.  
Because you sent it wrong. And I don't really care. However this  
needs to be mentioned now and then because sometimes The Clueless Get  
A Clue.

I was split about 51/49 as to whether my posting this morning should  
continue in this thread or start a new. Decided that it was about  
this thread and therefore should stay in it. This way it was threaded  
directly to the message I was talking about if anyone cares to go  
read the message headers in the thread. And those who were already  
tired of this thread would not be bothered.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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