Re: Changing Subjects (was: README: HOW TO GET HELP HERE (Welcome, student

["W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@most.fw.hac.com>]

> >...the failure to change subjects is more a shortcoming of oldtimers.
> 
> I'm not sure it's always a shortcoming.  It's nice to be able to
> kill-file an entire long blathering argument about nothing-in-particular
> in one swell foop.  ;-)  If people keep changing the subject (e.g. from
> "Ada is God's gift to programmers" to "Ada sucks" and back again) then
> it's harder to kill.

There is a trade-off.  One might (OTOH) end up killing a subject after
viewing three posts of inanities, and never know there was some 
"mislabeled hot stuff" coming up.

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