Re: OT Order yours today!

Sam Savoca wrote:
"Steve Turner" <bbqboyee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7jAXe.308$G64.303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You guys always puzzle me with this kind of response. If I'm not mistaken, Outlook Express (the newsreader most people seem to be using, even though Mozilla Thunderbird is far superior) does have the ability to show discussion threads in a hierarchical view (the way God intended!), and from that view it is incredibly easy to see who is responding to whom. Google Groups has a similar view.

There used to be a time when storage and bandwidth were precious, and superfluous quoting was frowned upon, but now people just use up storage and bandwidth like a big SUV sucking down the gasoline.



I use Outlook Express set to only show unread messages. So, if the original has already been read, it doesn't appear in the threading. I'm not alone.

I know, I know. Millions of people are probably doing the same thing. "Hey, quit using all those features of the internet that my brain-dead tools don't understand!". Well dang, wouldn't it make more sense to just chuck that crappy Microsoft newsreader and take advantage of the newsgroups the way our forefathers intended when they invented the USENET over 25 years ago? Friggin' Bill Gates! :-)

I like my big SUV. :^)

Yeah, me too actually. But I also have a big family and the ongoing need to cart loads of crap all over the countryside! But I'm also an efficiency nut, and if I could alter the size and shape of my vehicles to fit the circumstances I certainly would.

And if I could post in here using threads and pruning to their full advantage without getting yelled at, I would do that too. But I gave it up a long time ago because the ratio of quoters (and complainers) to pruners and threaders is too large.


P.S. I really loved your bit about the guy in the subway yelling at the overflowing trash can.* :-)

* (But since Sam snipped it from the quotes you guys are gonna need a threading newsreader to go back and check it out...) ;-)


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