crackdown 2.0

Gwern Branwen · 12 Jun 2010, 01:56 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:56:43 -0400
Subject: (urth) crackdown 2.0
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

>>> Wait a minute - just two weeks ago you said "It's a good idea to edit the
>>> subject line of a discussion to reflect the topic being discussed" -
>>> which
>>> is it?
>>
>> There's nothing inconsistent here, except in your head.
>>
>> I asked you offlist to look at the list of threads for just June and
>> tell me whether you thought each and every one was a genuine subject
>> edit in response to a topic change. You didn't. So I'll provide an
>> example from
>> http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2010-June/thread.html
>
> I didn't see any offlist messages from you, sorry.

My mistake, that was James Wynn - same initials, I guess!

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gwern

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