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Tom Kunich is [an] ass
Jobst Brandt wrote:
... I thought we had gotten over him, now that we have other contributors who are equally rude and obnoxious, always carping while offering no useful information. A few names come to mind. Nobody that posts under the name of a whiskey brand and refuses to use capital letters, of course? -- Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley |
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Tom Kunich is [an] ass
Johnny Sunset writes:
... I thought we had gotten over him, now that we have other contributors who are equally rude and obnoxious, always carping while offering no useful information. A few names come to mind. Too bad the header got changed from ... a ass... because that was a noted expression from Charles Dickens: http://www.bartleby.com/73/1002.html He chose it because it put special emphasis on the phrase as the OP probably did. By the way, changing the title loses the thread and starts a new one, which is also none too good for tracking where the discussion arose. Nobody that posts under the name of a whiskey brand and refuses to use capital letters, of course? I once suspected that as well but don't believe that Kunich was nearly as acrid in his responses. But that was in olden times when more crass four letter words were not used on this forum. Besides, he didn't seem to be at war with his high school English teacher, eschewing the **** key, and reasonable spelling and punctuation. Mr. alcohol claims to live in SF and ride a bicycle to work, which wouldn't do from San Leandro, without taking the bicycle to SF on BART, our rapid transit system. Jobst Brandt |
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Jobst Brandt wrote: ....By the way, changing the title loses the thread and starts a new one, which is also none too good for tracking where the discussion arose.... Jobst, I will remind you of this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/browse_frm/thread/7fe496e4d9d34ffd/eafc5dd1ec08ae24?q=aol+crank&rnum=1#eafc5dd1ec08ae 24. Note who changed the thread title. However, I thought changing OL (Octalink) to AOL was funny, which is why I remembered the thread. -- Tom Sherman - (Former rec.bicycles.tech regular) |
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Changing the title does WHAT? (Was: who cares.)
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Tom Sherman writes:
....By the way, changing the title loses the thread and starts a new one, which is also none too good for tracking where the discussion arose.... I will remind you of this thread: http://tinyurl.com/d4tky Note who changed the thread title. I missed that entirely as my spell checker offered AOL for the misspelled word OL. Apparently I changed that inadvertently. The new version of my spell checker no longer offers AOL as the first replacement choice for OL. I make enough typos that I usually spell check the item which then starts at the top of the page. However, I thought changing OL (Octalink) to AOL was funny, which is why I remembered the thread. As engrossed in the subject as I was, that passed me by entirely. In any event, I thought the Dickens usage was chosen on purpose. Jobst Brandt |
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Michael Press writes:
He chose it because it put special emphasis on the phrase as the OP probably did. By the way, changing the title loses the thread and starts a new one, which is also none too good for tracking where the discussion arose. No, changing the subject header does not change alter the threading. The References header and In-Reply-To header maintain integrity. A correctly written news reader is capable of displaying the list of articles according to the References headers. Still the user must choose to display the available articles according to threading if that is what he wants, and not depend upon the article Subject headers to organize the threading. Changing the Subject header in a sub-thread is permissible, even preferable, in many cases. Speak for your own news reader. Tin, the UNIX threaded news reader that I use, keeps threads by title and lists them only once even if cross posted to several subscribed newsgroups. Unless the item is separately posted to each newsgroup, it will be flagged as "read" once it has been accessed by the user. In this case I came across the item under separate threads. Jobst Brandt |
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Tom Kunich is [an] ass
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Michael Press writes: No, changing the subject header does not change alter the threading. Speak for your own news reader. Tin, the UNIX threaded news reader that I use, keeps threads by title No; you are misusing the term "thread". A "thread" is a group of articles associated because of Message-IDs and References lines. What tin does is group-by-Subject, which is inferior to true threading. The answer is to get a newsreader which functions correctly. -- David Damerell flcl? Today is Second Leicesterday, December. |
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Tom Kunich is [an] ass
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David Damerell wrote: Quoting : Michael Press writes: No, changing the subject header does not change alter the threading. Speak for your own news reader. Tin, the UNIX threaded news reader that I use, keeps threads by title No; you are misusing the term "thread". A "thread" is a group of articles associated because of Message-IDs and References lines. What tin does is group-by-Subject, which is inferior to true threading. The answer is to get a newsreader which functions correctly. That is what Tin does by default, but Tin can sort by references. In the man page under GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES is a configuration variable for sorting articles by the References header. Thread articles by (thread_articles) Defines which threading method to use. It's possible to set the threading type on a per group basis by setting the group attribute variable thread_arts to 0 - 4 in the file ${TIN_HOME- DIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes. (See also "GROUP ATTRIBUTES".) The default is Both Subject and References. The choices a 0 None, don't thread. 1 Subject, thread on ''Subject:'' only. 2 References, thread on ''References:'' only. 3 Both Subject and References, thread on ''References:'' then ''Subject:'' (default). 4 Multipart Subject, thread multipart articles on ''Subject:''. 5 Percentage Match, thread base upon a partial character match on ''Subject:''. -- Michael Press |
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Tom Kunich is [an] ass
David Damerell writes:
Quoting : Michael Press writes: No, changing the subject header does not change alter the threading. Speak for your own news reader. Tin, the UNIX threaded news reader that I use, keeps threads by title No; you are misusing the term "thread". A "thread" is a group of articles associated because of Message-IDs and References lines. What tin does is group-by-Subject, which is inferior to true threading. The answer is to get a newsreader which functions correctly. Given that Jobst uses Emacs, he's got a great option in Gnus right on his computer (M-x gnus). The current version is 5.10.6, I think; the CVS version is 5.11. All he has to do is set up his .gnus config file and he is in business. There are some great e-mail client options as well. |
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