From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 12:15:43 CST
In <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403301022370.13075@a.shell.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>Eivind Tagseth (eivindt@multinet.no):
>> Some reading agents may judge the omission of a back-reference as a
>> change in topic of a thread.
>"Judge"? They may GUESS, but all it is is guessing. "Judging" implies some
>information upon which to judge.
Well it may be judging, and it may be guessing, but it is what you have
been advocating by your repeated assertion that "no reference"
automatically means "new thread".
Anyway, my inclination is to omit that last sentence of the 2nd paragraph
of the NOTE. I am just waiting to see if there is anyone who wants to
retain it. Any takers?
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