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   candycanearter07 to nospam@example.net   
   Re: vtm: tiling window manager with drag   
   21 Mar 25 18:40:03   
   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   D  wrote at 22:00 this Saturday (GMT):   
   >   
   >   
   > On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
   >   
   >> I've had thoughts of working a lot in offline mode.  I could get USENET   
   >> messages every Monday, say, and then spend the rest of the week in   
   >> USENET offline mode.  Just that move is already a time saver because   
   >> working in batch mode is /usually/ more efficient.   
   >   
   > This is good thinking! I do my usenet once per day (in offline mode). But I   
   > think it might be wise to perhaps extend it. Well, to a certain degree it   
   > happens naturally. If work increases, my usenetting decreases. ;)   
   >   
   > Another thing I'm sometimes struggling with is thread-debt. Some threads,   
   while   
   > interesting, sometimes grow to unsustainable size. At some point they can   
   become   
   > too long to continue, so I must reluctantly abandon them. That feels bad   
   towards   
   > the person who invested a lot of time in writing the post. =(   
      
      
   Cheers, I can't focus that well reading through 400 message long   
   threads.   
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