[License-discuss] Discourse email

[Lawrence Rosen]

[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-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
Behalf Of Rick Moen
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 10:27 PM
To: license-discuss at 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:luis at lu.is> luis at 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+osi at km6g.us>
kevin+osi at 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.  

 

 

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