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   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 12/09/13 2:31 PM, Snidely wrote:   
   > Brian M. Scott commented:   
   >> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:50:39 -0700, Snidely   
   >>  wrote   
   >   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> Mesnews handled Brian's post okay, but it appears that   
   >>> Steve's response has lost something.   
   >>   
   >> I’d not encountered MesNews before; looks to be quite nice.   
   >   
   > I do get jealous of the minions of Agent who get to blast a subthread. I   
   > can mark a whole thread read, but sometimes it's only one limb that I   
   > want to skip past.   
      
   That's why I never killfile anyone. Sometimes, an irate duologue that   
   seems to go on and on, tempts me, but then I remember that the same   
   thread contains lots of interesting contributions from other people.   
   --   
   Robert Bannister   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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