On 08/14/09 15:30, Daniel Bastos wrote:
> In article<4a859a99$1@news.povray.org>,
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>
>> 	Your newsreader likely has a way to kill a thread if you're not
>> interested in the topic. I use it all the time here.
>
> That's always the way to go. I could have a peaceful discussion with
> someone in a crawded-with-spam USENET group. I ignore everyone but the
> person.
>
> I used to do this on IRC. Crawded channel, peaceful conversation with
> very few. This was in the days where I could still bear IRC.
>
> And that's why I despise a mail list. I don't mind them as long as I
> can talk in them through gmane.org or something like that. But many
> mail lists require you to be a member to talk there. Aff. One must
> control everything.


	You know, stuff like Thunderbird doesn't let you kill subthreads, which 
really sucks. I don't know if the more well known news readers (tin?) 
allow it.

	I know gnus does. One day, within the next ten years or so, I'll switch 
both email and newsgroup reading to gnus.

	Then *finally*, I'll be able to handle mailing lists (treat them just 
as I treat any newsgroup).

-- 
When a toast with butter falls from your hand, it always falls on the 
butter side.

When a cat falls from a height, it always lands on her feet.

If you tie a buttertoast over a cat with the butterside to the top, and 
let both fall, what will face the floor, the butter or the feet?

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