air impedance

It screws up nothing. I add the B in the subject so I know which threads I am involved in and so those that disagree with me do not have to open my posts.

The characteristic impedance of free space is indeed 377 ohms. The "characteristic impedance" of a medium is defined as the ratio of the electrical field strength (in volts/meter) to the magnetic field (in amps/meter) of a transverse wave. Air has a characteristic impedance quite close to that of free space.

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Of course this doesn't mean that your Fluke is going to read 377 ohms, any more than it will read 50 ohms looking at a hunk of coax (of finite length;).

You need to learn to use a threading news reader. It does for you exactly what you want to do (find responses to your posts, just look for the subtree rooted on your posts) without such tampering, and you would see messing with the subject like that breaks threading.

How does changing the heading screw up threading? All his replys and yours too are in the same thread if you use the most widespread FREE news reader i.e Outlook Express.

You mean Outhouse Distress Mail Reader, Newsreader and Virus Installer got something right for once? Amazing! OK, technically maybe not 100% correct since the RFCs say the subject shouldn't be changed in a thread, but this is a case where it seems it did something better than the RFCs.

(and it's hardly free, it's just bundled with the rest of Billyware)

I use what I have and only unload the new posts each day. I am happy with what I have and am satisfied. What skin is it off your nose.

If protocol was so important to you , I do not think you would be posting this out of order matter in this thread.

Which happens to be what I am presently useing.

Thank you. Good question also. I was wondering the same thing.

Aside from any Microsoft bashing, the changing of the thread subject is of very poor etiquette, non-compliant, and rather selfish, in order of import. While most sensible threading mail readers won't be upset by it, a non-trivial fraction will. Also, do consider what these subject lines would look like if we all adopted your method. Configuring your mail reader to thread newsgroups or switching to a reader that supports it if your current reader does not will solve your problem. It simply comes down to inconveniencing many because you are too lazy to either read through posts or to learn how to properly operate a newsreader.

Steve

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Aside from any Microsoft bashing, the changing of the thread subject is of very poor etiquette, non-compliant, and rather selfish, in order of import. While most sensible threading mail readers won't be upset by it, a non-trivial fraction will. Also, do consider what these subject lines would look like if we all adopted your method. Configuring your mail reader to thread newsgroups or switching to a reader that supports it if your current reader does not will solve your problem. It simply comes down to inconveniencing many because you are too lazy to either read through posts or to learn how to properly operate a newsreader.

Steve

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And what is posting off topic.

And what is posting off topic.

AS is sending out email with out a proper return address which you sent me.

Of course it was. Revealing the secrets of the guild would get one dead, real fast. More recently, look at the industrial revolution.

IP has *always* been protected, often by deadly force. The IP laws today are pussy-play, by comparison. Indeed the whole idea of a patent is to *teach* technology (the "teachings" of a patent) in exchange for an exclusive license (the "claims"). The application of principles, as always, isn't perfect.

...umm, because you're private "standards" screw things up for others? If everyone did the same, we'd have chaos, rather like the Usenet. Oh...

Protocol is important, bush. It's all about making your ideas easier to read for the other guy. After all, you *are* talking to others, right?

Actually top posting makes things easier to read. When you open the message the top is always at the same place. If the message is there , no scrolling is neccessary.

If your reader opens at the bottom then you would have to scroll up to get to the start of the message.

Most of the time I give the wheel a couple of turns, if I have not reached the bottom and the new stuff, I just go on to the next post. It is unhealty and it gives you carpel tunnel syndrome scrolling to the bottom of every post to read the new stuff. If there is not much there, and it all fits on one page, bottom posting is fine.

But a lot of people rather than just post what is new, leave the 10 previous posts there so you can get a lot of pages to scroll down to. The whole idear of bottom posting is that all the old posts would be erased then the thread following method makes sense and if you just leave a tad of the old post and bottom posting makes sense.

But those people who leave the last 10 posts and then add to them obviate the purpose of bottom posting and the whole idea of thread posting. But when you have to scroll down 10 pages to get to the new stuff it is just an unworth while bother and a danger to your wrists.

So of we want to talk manners, we must fist discuss those who violate the rules by leaving pages and pages of posts and just add to the bottom make it a pain and very redundent to open a post and follow a thread.

I am alway interested in those who violate good manners, leave, 6 levels of old posts, then add their to the bottom and then complain about others who post other than they would like to dictate to the world.