On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:06:28 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design:
[snip] > By the way, your reply started a new thread, either yours or the > previous message broke something. That's because I was replying to Mick's message from the NNTP server news.eternal-september.org. It is downstream from bofh.it. This reply should not break threading, as I am replying to your message received directly from the mailing list. [I have switched my subscription from "nomail" to "mail".] > I'm not quite so confused now. This didn't help any: > > Bastard Operator From Hell (/BOFH/) Well, if you read the BOFH stories, you will find that the central character has a penchant for treating users with contempt. > This is another way of reading that but there may be a few ladies on > here. ;-) I now realize that you are talking about a news server > thingy. lol Cleared up a little mud at least. lol Well, I'm glad we have sorted out the mystery. I don't know if we can get the sysadmin to fix the rogue newsserver. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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