OK, new story.

Up until a few weeks ago, I put • into the reply nodes because I wanted to "subscribe" to the threads to which I had contributed. A quick glance of the "new nodes" page showed me replies to replies to my replies.

Now, even that's been taken away from me, because the reply-subject-constructor now leaves "re^n" but takes away my tagging.

Why do people insist on taking things away that I find useful, but not replace them with other useful things, like subscriptions or better searching? That's a net loss, as far as I'm concerned.

Today I still do it, in hopes that the recent re^-folding logic might be backed out until a good searching or subscription system can be set up.

Those who have not studied Usenet threading are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re^2: • What is this? by merlyn
in thread • What is this? by ccn

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