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Re: [Manycouches] ways to slow list traffic down

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 27 August 2019 18:36 UTC

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    mcr> The obvious hack is to start new threads for new topics.  That in of
    mcr> itself might be a positive thing.

Mike Bishop <mbishop@evequefou.be> wrote:
    > For actual new topics, sure.  I won't mention the list, but I recently
    > had someone changing the subject on every reply; made the conversation
    > nearly impossible to follow.

So, unless they removed References: and In-Reply-To:, it should thread
anyway.  If not, your MUA is broken :-)

But, yes, that's the rub: how to make the topics useful.

And then there are people who top-post, I guess because they poor MUAs.




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