aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) (07/04/89)
wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: >Agreed. Hunt NN down, take it out, and stomp it. Re^n breaks virtually every >piece of news reading software ever written, to a greater or lesser degree, >and plays hell with mechanisms that follow Subject: threads. Personally I think it's elegant. Alot more attractive than "Re: Re: re: re: Re: Re: guns and the NRA (was: guns guns guns guns guns)" or somesuch. I suggest a patch for other newsreaders instead. aem a.e.mossberg - aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu/aem@umiami.BITNET - Pahayokee Bioregion The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. - Albert Einstein
wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) (07/04/89)
In article <401@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) writes: >Personally I think it's elegant. Alot more attractive than >"Re: Re: re: re: Re: Re: guns and the NRA (was: guns guns guns guns guns)" >or somesuch. Both behaviours are evidence of broken news readers. Bill Wisner wisner@mica.berkeley.edu ucbvax!mica!wisner I'm not the NRA either.
kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (07/04/89)
In article <401@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:
From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Date: 3 Jul 89 17:00:30 GMT
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Personally I think it's elegant. Alot more attractive than
"Re: Re: re: re: Re: Re: guns and the NRA (was: guns guns guns guns guns)"
or somesuch.
I never (NEVER) seem to get multiple Re's on the subject line and I've never
seen them (only Re: Re^x).
Kim
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: > In article <89Jul2.110144edt.10370@neat.ai.toronto.edu>, lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes: > >mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes: > >>Over the last week or so I've noticed the proliferation of subject > >>lines beginning with "Re^n:", as in > > > >It's an nn-ism. I guess No News is good news for a lot of people, enough > >to rewire their brain and switch news readers (the "... writes:" line with > >no message-id is also a hint that the poster is using nn). But I do wish > >nn had this feature excised. > Ya know, I really hate to say this, but... > The "Re^n:" business is a direct violation of RFC-1036: It will be out of nn, when the next set of patches comes out. Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk). .