From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "John G. Volan" Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/06/09 Message-ID: <339CA0E7.14AF@sprintmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247320009 References: <5mmvgj$61k@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk> <19970602.562B58.2B32@ai110.du.pipex.com> <5n1261$qj6@polo.demon.co.uk> <19970602.433020.144E5@ai078.du.pipex.com> <33983ABE.26B2@sni.de> <19970606.49CA70.12B91@ae124.du.pipex.com> <5nfnq1$6ta@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <339BA835.6A5C@sprintmail.com> Reply-To: johnvolan@sprintmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > And I can't believe John is still reading the thread if he feels this way. > What's the matter John, don't you know how to kill a thread? Well, I was trying for humor, but if you want a serious response: I haven't been reading this thread, but I have been "watching" it. I do know how to kill a thread but generally I don't bother with a killfile; if I get fed up with the latest messages in a thread, I'll tell Netscape to mark the thread as read, collapse the tree, and go on. But, irrespective of one's kill preferences, a useless or off-topic thread, especially one that is cross-posted to multiple newsgroups like this, wastes Internet bandwidth and host resources and just contributes to the world wide wait. Also, remember that in the case of comp.lang.ada, everything posted there is echoed on the info-ada mailing list. If one has chosen to receive digests from info-ada, there's no way to "kill" threads. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet.Usenet.Put_Signature (Name => "John G. Volan", Employer => "Texas Instruments Advanced C3I Systems, San Jose, CA", Work_Email => "johnv@ti.com", Home_Email => "johnvolan@sprintmail.com", Slogan => "Ada95: World's *FIRST* International-Standard OOPL", Disclaimer => "My employer never defined these opinions, so using " & "them would be totally erroneous...or is that just " & "nondeterministic behavior now? :-) "); ------------------------------------------------------------------------