Just to play devil's advocate, if you look back at the list, KC has written a lot of helpful and informative messages in the past. Tom On 5/23/12, Bardur Arantsson wrote:

On 05/24/2012 04:31 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:

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This has come up before -- this KC person probably has a broken mail client which doesn't set appropriate References headers.

That, however, ignores the rest of it; the lack of references in this case forms a pattern with the other things I noted, in that a conversation is apparently being held in the form of single observations emitted at the point of observation instead of being collected and presented *as* a conversation.

Right. I was actually just about to respond to (only) KC in person, but perhaps unwisely, decided to "hijack" your response to add a little explanation for everyone.

You are of course right that not quoting context and just randomly spewing out small bits of text is not really suitable for a mailing list.

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