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Replace dangerous side steps aspasia 03-21-2007
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Posted by mm on March 23, 2007, 5:02 pm


On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:08:28 -0700, aspasia wrote:

>wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>>| On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:30:22 -0700, aspasia wrote:
>>>|
>>>| >
>>>| >>snipped the story book of the EX<<
>>>|
>>>| BTW, is it legal to repair the converter?
>>>
>>>it is illegal to repair a catalytic converter
>>
>>Uh-huh.
>>>
>>>| When it is only the pipe that is broken?
>>>|
>>>not illegal to repair the pipe unless it is just clamped on.
>>>
>>Good. It was only the pipe, and the two pieces were welded back
>>together. No clamp. Not only was the guy careful both times around
>>(I watched) but the sound then and as long as the car ran indicated
>>that there was no exhaust leak.
>
>Er...I think you got two threads mixed up.

No, no. Same thread. Called "thread creep".

If you recall, the common factor was trying to get things done
inexpensively when you live in an expensive neighborhood.

(not that I do, but it was too expensive to repair a pipe.)

>Aspasia


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Posted by on March 23, 2007, 10:40 pm


wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:08:28 -0700, aspasia wrote:
>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>| On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:30:22 -0700, aspasia wrote:
>>>>|
>>>>| >
>>>>| >>snipped the story book of the EX<<
>>>>|
>>>>| BTW, is it legal to repair the converter?
>>>>
>>>>it is illegal to repair a catalytic converter
>>>
>>>Uh-huh.
>>>>
>>>>| When it is only the pipe that is broken?
>>>>|
>>>>not illegal to repair the pipe unless it is just clamped on.
>>>>
>>>Good. It was only the pipe, and the two pieces were welded back
>>>together. No clamp. Not only was the guy careful both times around
>>>(I watched) but the sound then and as long as the car ran indicated
>>>that there was no exhaust leak.
>>
>>Er...I think you got two threads mixed up.
>
>No, no. Same thread. Called "thread creep".
>
>If you recall, the common factor was trying to get things done
>inexpensively when you live in an expensive neighborhood.
>
>(not that I do, but it was too expensive to repair a pipe.)
>
OK, got it -- but here's what I was taught:

Subject line would read:

Repair broken pipe [was: Replace dangerous side steps]

That way people interested in the new subject can go right to it,
and people interested in the old subject can bypass it. -- all
without breaking the thread.

Aspasia


Posted by mm on March 24, 2007, 1:01 am


On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:40:47 -0700, aspasia wrote:

>
>>No, no. Same thread. Called "thread creep".
>>
>>If you recall, the common factor was trying to get things done
>>inexpensively when you live in an expensive neighborhood.
>>
>>(not that I do, but it was too expensive to repair a pipe.)
>>
>OK, got it -- but here's what I was taught:
>
>Subject line would read:
>
>Repair broken pipe [was: Replace dangerous side steps]

I used to do that. And when I change the subject line, I still do
that.

When I read mailing lists, people are always changing the subject line
and it is sometimes a big problem for me because Eudora doesn't sort
by recent thread, only by mailbox. So I almost never change subject
lines in email lists, or even personal correspondence, and that has
carried over to news, even though Agent does sort by thread.
>
>That way people interested in the new subject can go right to it,

Maybe, maybe not. I use Agent, which is about as versatile as could
be, more versatile than any other new program I know, and even if on
occasion it's not, using it points out the issues.

Reading with Agent (which many people use) there are two choices,
1)Start a new thread when subject line changes, and
2)Don't start one when subject changes.

If you choose 2, there is no way to go right to it, because it appears
with all the others and they only have one entry, at the top, that
lists the subject. The entries below it don't give the subject.

If you choose 1, then the new thread starts at the very bottom of the
list, regardless of how far away from the original thread that was.

There were too many times when too many people changed the subject
line, often without even quoting the original subject, and I wanted to
go back to an earlier post in the thread, and couldn't find one.

So I chose 2 and that has solved 1's enormous problem, but it has the
problems I listed.

I've used Netscape a little for news, but not enough to see how it
works on this issue. I guess other news readers could keep a
multi-subject thread in one place, while listing the subject in the
table of contents every time it changed. Does any program do that?

>and people interested in the old subject can bypass it. -- all
>without breaking the thread.

>Aspasia


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