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RE: Improper threading (was: Re: the latest news)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:59:40 GMT
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1 minor problem...I don't have internet access here at work, nor news
access...I only have e-mail..And now you're trying to take that from me
:(
{Trust me, if I had internet access, I'd be posting that way.]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsary..Growing up isn't :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Pieniazek [mailto:lar@voyager.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:56 AM
> To: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Improper threading (was: Re: the latest news)
>
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > G'day,
> >
> > I've e-mailed Todd about this a couple of times, and I think • I posted a
> > message asking for help, but I haven't got any replies. • Unfortunately, this
> > problem could easily be caused by the mail server at work, • which I have no
> > way of fixing.
>
> Well, it's not Todd's job to fix your duff software, I'd say.
> But maybe he can
> shed some light on what is going wrong. I may be
> misremembering but I think I
> recall that the reference line is getting truncated (1), and
> that is causing
> the misanchoring. Or maybe that was someone else.
>
> In the meantime, here's an idea.
>
> Post via the web interface. This misthreading is so very very
> inconvenient for
> everyone else that the minor inconvenience to you to fix it
> by posting from
> there is vastly outweighed. (and if you work somewhere where
> you can't get web
> access, you might want to consider changing jobs, or doing it
> from home.)
>
> I find it so annoying, at any rate, that I often skip your
> posts, which is too
> bad, really, because I don't usually want to reply and make
> the problem worse,
> but it means I'm ignoring what might be valid commentary.
>
> 1 - what we called a "ference error" back in the chad age
>
> ++Lar
>
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Improper threading (was: Re: the latest news)
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| Whytcross, Benjamin wrote in message <1D0812CAE3E7D2118BC...s.com.au>. .. (...) WOW!! I just discovered something even more screwy about all of this. As we know, Ben's posts show as new threads via HTTP. BUT, I just checked via NNTP and the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Improper threading (was: Re: the latest news)
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| (...) Like I said: Get your email fixed, it's broken OR Get web access at work, your company policy is broken OR Vote with your feet, your company policy is broken OR Post from home Don't ask us to live with your software's dodgyness and don't ask (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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