Date   : Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:17:17 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Bye...

Rick Murray wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 13:51, Dominic Beesley wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately of late it has descended into a boorish talking shop about
>> many off-topic subjects that to be honest are at best boring ...
> 
> Ah...
> 
>    X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0
> 
> Can that do threading? 

Is it even a mail client by any modern sense of the term? ;)

 > I just ignore topics that I'm not interested in.

There has been a lot less useful content of late (as in at least the last year 
or so), I've noticed. I'm not sure if people are using the hardware less, or 
if it's just that the systems are so well understood now that there's less to 
ask.

All my stuff's still in storage in the UK, where it has been for the last 
three years, so I figure I have a good excuse :-)

> To unsubscribe seems a little harsh, for in amongst the off topic parts 
> can be useful information. But, hey, your choice. Maybe you're still on 
> dialup and every message counts. ;-)

I don't like waste - I hate it when people don't trim message replies, for 
instance - but at the same time I don't object if someone sends out an OT 
message of a couple of KB; the way I look at it, it's not like I'm interested 
in reading *everything* that gets posted here, even when it is on topic.  I 
suppose everyone's tolerance threshold is different, though.

cheers

Jules