[Changing the subject!]
Rick Moen wrote to Luis Villa about Discourse: > I found it lastingly strange to be targeted by some very strange personal rhetoric from you for saying that -- and find it suspicious that you, the main person lobbying for migration away from SMTP/mailing lists to an instance of Discourse Web-forum software hosted by a third-party corporation, are still flogging that particular deceased equine. Somehow a decision will be made eventually here despite accusations of "strange personal rhetoric" in Rick's 2019 email that he formatted as "plain text." Even HTML is still suspicious to some people, but I changed Rick's message to HTML format because that's all I want to use. :-) I used Discourse at an open source client's website. I can speak very positively about it. It integrated spryly with my old-fashioned deceased equine email system. It is smart software. /Larry -----Original Message----- From: License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> On Behalf Of Rick Moen Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 10:27 PM To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] popularity, usage, re-review of old licenses [was Re: Evolving the License Review process for OSI Quoting Luis Villa ( <mailto:l...@lu.is> l...@lu.is): > [1] who did not notice my "basic internet 101" subject change ;) What I _actually_ said was that just editing the Subject header (and preferably also deleting In-Reply-To so that mailers doing real threading pick up the change) is 'Internet 101' as a method to... change the Subject header. To recap context: Mr. Kevin P. Fleming < <mailto:kevin+...@km6g.us> kevin+...@km6g.us> had asserted that on mailing lists, threads cannot 'be split off into separate topics', whereas on Discourse Web-forum software, one can. I was replying to say, um, it's Internet 101 that if you want to change the subject in SMTP, you change Subject (preferably also deleting In-Reply-To) -- that doing that has a 37-year history of working in the obvious way, and also ironically that threading isn't supported at _all_ in Discourse. I found it lastingly strange to be targeted by some very strange personal rhetoric from you for saying that -- and find it suspicious that you, the main person lobbying for migration away from SMTP/mailing lists to an instance of Discourse Web-forum software hosted by a third-party corporation, are still flogging that particular deceased equine. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list <mailto:License-discuss@lists.opensource.org> License-discuss@lists.opensource.org <http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensour ce.org> http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensourc e.org
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