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[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:58:37 -0500, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:24:34PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Seriously, though, I think Andrej sometimes quotes *nothing* (no
>> offense for picking on you Andrej), and couple that with the
>> newsgroup's seemingly random decision to start a new thread, or put
>> a reply at the same level, I sometimes have no idea what he's
>> talking about :)
> [...]
>
> You guys should just use a threading mail reader. Like mutt. :-P :-P
> (Though Ary's post didn't make sense to me either, because I'd deleted
> the parent post already. Ah well. The joys of impersonal online
> communication...)

You should not delete old posts :)  I find it invaluable for searching for  
old discussions sometimes (I use opera with google-like searching).

-Steve