From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GVL8t-0001Mk-IO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:47:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k954jYvd007733; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:45:34 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k954jXQY021470 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:45:33 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCAD34E5 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:45:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id SwcKVYb+7SJz for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80A634F6 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:45:31 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Thread-hijacking (was: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to play flac files?) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:45:31 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200610030946.31015.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <200610041429.03312.bss03@volumehost.net> <1160018593.12546.8.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org> In-Reply-To: <1160018593.12546.8.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4019769.B6nDO63tIF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610042345.31549.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 8d6542c1-c8c2-4b74-9090-e29a4615bd65 X-Archives-Hash: 58cb4192e8b601be477a200601ff37bd --nextPart4019769.B6nDO63tIF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 04 October 2006 22:23, "Vladimir G. Ivanovic"=20 wrote about 'Re: Thread-hijacking (was: Re:=20 [gentoo-amd64] How to play flac files?)': > About, oh, 99.9% of the world's email users wouldn't have any idea of > what we're talking about. The notion that emails with different subjects > would be part of the same thread would strike them as, expressing it > politely, interesting. Stupidity, ignorance, and/or apathy are not good reasons for breaking=20 thoughtful, long-lived, and useful standards and tradition. Of course,=20 they aren't good reasons for keeping them either. References transfers the intent of the composer [Reply vs. New Mail] in a=20 way that a Subject does not. As I mentioned in my other email, this is a=20 desired feature, not a bug. =2D-=20 "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." =2D- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh --nextPart4019769.B6nDO63tIF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFJI3rq72nDbhDXToRAgslAJsG+fMkZEbKf3aBrkFK73tAJOCB8QCfTqD/ X5bwrnsH7AhBpO3I7442kI8= =/+es -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4019769.B6nDO63tIF-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list