You are right as far as subscribing, but I was thinking about something
else. For example when I get to work in the morning and check the email,
being an international mailing list, there are already many messages in my
mailbox. One message has ten replies, but if I or anyone else needs to get
into the discussion in the middle of the message, should they have to read
all 10 (or more) messages in order, or rather read the last one with all the
replies? I guess I don't feel that I'm either right or wrong since your
point is just as valid, so we must live with people having their own
preferences in reading newsgroup/email messages, sort of similar to coding
style. I've seen some coding style that I wanted to hang myself afterwards,
but it was written by really good developers since it fit their preferences,
habbit, etc..., so it wasn't necessarily bad, but rather bad to my eye.
But as far as email replies I don't mind either way.
Ilya Sterin
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald J Kimball
To: Sterin, Ilya
Cc: ''[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' '; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' '
Sent: 6/6/01 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: I want to unsuscribe
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:57:05PM -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> Well depends. Sometimes you don't want them trimmed, so if someone
comes in
> in the middle of the thread, they don't have to read each and every
message,
> but rather the last one.
That's ridiculous. If someone comes in in the middle of the thread,
they
should check the archives for past messages. You're putting a burden on
actual people that are already on the mailing list to accomodate some
hypothetical person who might subscribe in the middle of a discussion.
Ronald
