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   Re: vtm: tiling window manager with drag   
   21 Mar 25 22:13:55   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, candycanearter07 wrote:   
      
   > 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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