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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 06:36:54 +0000 (UTC)
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Darrin Doc O'Leary <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> wrote:

> And this gets into some of the tricky bits of threading.  What if an
> article was crossposted, read in another group, but a followup only posted
> to the current group?  Don't show the parent?  Show it as read?  There are
> many messy edge conditions when it comes to how to best treat the
> newsreading experience in a user friendly manner.

This is but one area where your imagined digust with all the work
everyone else has done is going to cost you, big time.

Billy Y..
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