Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:36:24 +0100, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Jorgen Grahn wrote: >> >>>On 1 Oct 2006 10:18:59 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>.... >>> >>> >>>>and I wish to add my findings to the post, to prevent others from >>>>taking the wrong path. > > .... > >>>In Usenet terms, make a posting with a References: header which mentions the >>>Message-ID of the bad posting (just like this posting references yours, if >>>you look closely at the headers). That's easier if the posting hasn't >>>already expired on your server, but by no means impossible if it has. >>> >>>/Jorgen >>> >> >>Since this message was never on topic, > > > I disagree; it was a technical question on how to handle a discussion in > this newsgroup, and IMHO that is always on topic -- to a certain point. > > >>I'd appreciate it if all >>concerned would close this thread now. > > > I think you are overreacting. This was a thread with three (3) postings, in > a high-volume newsgroup, with no indication that it would continue (except > maybe with a pointer to whatever posting the OP wanted to correct, or to his > correction). > I probably was. I also missed the (in retrospect, fairly clear) implication that it was an old *c.l.py* post that was being discussed.
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