Re: Broken newsgroup threading (was: Re: An observation)

2012-05-05 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:00:40AM -0400, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 05/03/2012 06:07 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: > > > >Does the D newsgroup have broken threading in mutt? In my client > >threading breaks often because some answers starts new thread etc. > >makes the hole thing useless. > > The b

Broken newsgroup threading (was: Re: An observation)

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Nowakowski
On 05/03/2012 06:07 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: Does the D newsgroup have broken threading in mutt? In my client threading breaks often because some answers starts new thread etc. makes the hole thing useless. The broken threading is caused by the Mailman newsgroup to mailing list gateway, as

Re: An observation

2012-05-03 Thread Regan Heath
On Thu, 03 May 2012 15:31:25 +0100, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:07:44PM +0200, Tobias Pankrath wrote: > >Not that I'm advocating Mutt, but I do recommend taking the time to >learn to use a threading mail/news reader. It will help you keep up >with very high traffic mailing l

Re: An observation

2012-05-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:07:44PM +0200, Tobias Pankrath wrote: > > > >Not that I'm advocating Mutt, but I do recommend taking the time to > >learn to use a threading mail/news reader. It will help you keep up > >with very high traffic mailing lists/forums, and not just the D > >forums. (D's foru

Re: An observation

2012-05-03 Thread Tobias Pankrath
Not that I'm advocating Mutt, but I do recommend taking the time to learn to use a threading mail/news reader. It will help you keep up with very high traffic mailing lists/forums, and not just the D forums. (D's forums are relatively tame, comparatively speaking. I've been on mailing lists w

Re: An observation

2012-05-02 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:41:54AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: [...] > Usenet can be moderated too. [...] Yikes! When I read that I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Usenet? Moderation? Wow... Anyway, back on topic, I have this suspicion that a lot of the complaints about the forums is due to

Re: An observation

2012-05-02 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 2, 2012, at 3:04 AM, "Tobias Pankrath" wrote: > Maybe we should just start to use a forum software where threads can be > moderated. Usenet can be moderated too. It's just work for somebody.

Re: An observation

2012-05-02 Thread Tobias Pankrath
Maybe we should just start to use a forum software where threads can be moderated.

Re: An observation

2012-05-01 Thread Maxim Fomin
On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 14:47:19 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: I got to a point of pain with the "Re: How can D become adopted at my company?" thread so I thought I would say something. Good. This list often has threads that go to 300-400 contributions or more. Good too. After about 20-25

Re: An observation

2012-05-01 Thread Gour
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:46:56 +0100 Russel Winder wrote: > This list often has threads that go to 300-400 contributions or more. > After about 20-25 contributions the topic completely changes and is > often completely unrelated to the subject. Quite quickly I think > TL;DR and so simply delete al

An observation

2012-05-01 Thread Russel Winder
I got to a point of pain with the "Re: How can D become adopted at my company?" thread so I thought I would say something. This list often has threads that go to 300-400 contributions or more. After about 20-25 contributions the topic completely changes and is often completely unrelated to the sub