On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 01:37:57AM +0200, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: [...] > Recently I posted here with the subject line: "have you seen this inside..." > > And I was lectured by no fewer than three people. As someone of those who did the "lecturing", I somehow feel urged to respond ;-) > The subject line in this thread is: "How long will this take?" Yes. The original subject wasn't very informative. Then, the thread drifted away (not the subject, as I promised above in the Subject, alas). This happens, often one small nudge at a time (you may notice that you just contributed to that yourself ;-) Sometimes people try to straighten the mess a bit (I tried in this mail) by adjusting the subject. As a human endeavour, this, too, is bound to fail alarmingly often. > I struggle to understand the difference between the two subject lines > that merits their different treatment. I'll take your question face value. While there are big similarities between both, I still see at least two (small!) differences. 1) The subject "how long will this take" at least gives a hint at something performance-related. The subject "have you seen this inside..." doesn't give any hint. 2) In the current example, the subjet was (somewhat, see (1) for the limitations) appropriate in the initial mail and slowly lost relevance as the thread drifted away (it still has a bit of relevance, since the speed of /dev/urandom is somewhere around there). As to why they merit different treatment -- I don't know. I don't think so. Human behaviour is messy, more so in big groups. If you still feel you've been treated unjustly, my apologies are still up for the part I took in that. You can always mail me personally if you think there's something I can/should learn from all that. Cheers -- t
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