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Re: Read Threads Disappear!
Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote in
20061201163834.GB30952@trixie.casa.cgf.cx:">news:20061201163834.GB30952@trixie.casa.cgf.cx:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 04:18:20PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
>>Hi
>>I'm using Xnews as news reader
>>
>>If I read all the items in a thread, next time I go in, the thread has
>>disappeared!!
>>
>>I just can't see where the option is to enable/disable this!
>>
>>Any ideas, I 've seen this in other News Readers
>
> thread is there but obscured by hippos...
>
> hippo sat on thread, squashing it...
>
> enraged hippo scared thread into hiding...
>
> hippo in tutu embarrassed caused thread to duck under desk...
>
> thread evolved into higher entity - it's still there you just need to
> be telepathic to see it...*
>
> hyperthreaded/dual-core machine caused thread malfunction...
>
> never forget that it is threads which are responsible for the success
of
> Xnews. It seems to me that you shouldn't have to have reading skills
to
> understand the concept of threads and although I've never seen Xnews, I
> have a great idea about how to make it better - it should have
graphical
> hippo icons.
>
> cgf
>
> *still vaguely related to hippos owing to the original thread which
> introduced them.
CGF have you take the Hippocratical Oath?
Actually missing threads is something of an urban legend
>
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