[78-L] using threads, and a question about Hit of The Weeks, was: Noise

[buster]

a number of email clients, the Mac's "Mail" application included, have  
the capability to organize by email "thread."  using this feature, one  
can organize a whole string of related emails into a single nested  
line item.  it's been so nice to be able to see all the recent chaff  
organized in such a way, and be able to dump it so quickly and easily.

last time i was on here, in the early 90s, it got the same way every  
so often (as do ALL newsgroups)...and i vaguely remember one  
especially nasty and long-lived battle (the nauck and his god and  
texas were at the center of that one) was the reason i left then.  but  
this time i have threads to help me through it, so it'll be easier to  
stay.

here's a few helpful pointers for the folks who want to keep going at  
it but need to move on to the next level:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flame_wars

(note especially the extremely useful and effective "Fifty Zwarg Post.")

anybody remember that article from a lot of years ago in the MAPS  
journal, categorizing the many types of collectors?  we all know that  
as a group we often tend to be cranky and opinionated and, uh, "fussy"  
- to varying degrees - and to avoid the cr at p that must therefore come  
with that, we must keep on the single topic that brings us together in  
the first place.  so...

anybody have a good recommendation on how to play Hit of The Weeks (or  
is it Hits of the Week?) safely and reliably?  my best fix so far is  
to lay them on top of a junk diamond disc on the platter, then clamp a  
binder clip to the spindle to tightly hold down the center of the  
HOTW.  some folks just staple two of them back to back, but that seems  
a little destructive.  ideas?

On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:08 PM, David Lewis wrote:

>
> Gott in himmel! Seems to me like there is an awful lot of NOISE on  
> 78-L of late; getting so it's hard to find the signal. Can we get  
> back to talking 'bout 78s -- you know, they're round and packed with  
> sound....Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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