In article <4a85d6dc$1@news.povray.org>,
Neeum Zawan wrote:

> 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.

That really sucks. I don't know either about tin or another. 

I use slrn, and in reality slrn doesn't even ignore threads
either. But with the scoring mecanism, you can easily separate the
threads you participate. That's a must in any reader. Outlook express
does that by default by pressing C-H. That's nice. Simple things.

These things are usually very easy to implement. But figuring out how
the code works is usually a major curve. People write notes about the
code, but they never write a tutorial on how to keep all the code in
your mind.

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

I was never able to do that. I do compose mail in emacs; so it always
made sense to me to use gnus. But I never made it. I don't know why;
slrn however seemed quite natural.

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