[gentoo-amd64] Re: How to play flac files?

["Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@comcast.net> posted
1160018216.12546.1.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org, excerpted below, on  Wed,
04 Oct 2006 20:16:56 -0700:

> I don't know about you, but I don't look at headers like References. So,
> if the subject differ and the mailer says one is a reply to the other, I
> consider that a bug.

I don't normally look at them either, but my client of choice has an
option to thread by subject or by references, and I opt for and strongly
support its references threading feature.  If a post says it's a reply to
another post, that's what it is, even if the subject has changed.  If
someone's replying to a thread with something entirely unconnected (as in,
not natural thread drift, but an abrupt unconnected change), it's thread
hijacking and a "PEBKAC" (problem exists between keyboard and chair, IOW,
the human involved has a bug and he needs called on it so it can be
corrected).  Subject change on the same thread should be due to thread
drift, which is NOT thread hijacking and shouldn't be treated as such, by
separately threading it due only to the subject change.

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