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Thought I'd chip in with another observation about thread viewing and replying. I may have misread the situation, but lukaszd's reply re oxymoron coming after shanks' reply to the same effect suggests to me that lukaszd was viewing the thread in flat mode and failed to see that shanks had changed the subject of the message to contain the answer to the question without actually using the word oxymoron in the body of his reply.
I find this happens to me a lot. In my favoured flat mode, my eye skips from one message body to the next. Sometimes days, weeks or months later I'll get quite a surprise to find a number of interesting or witty post subjects that I had missed, even though I read the message at the time. I unearth them when I switch (rarely) to Threaded Mode, or use Search.
So there are lessons for viewers of both persuasions:
1. flatliners beware - you may be missing some of the fun, and
2. all posters - try to repeat the subject, if it's important, within the body for the sake of flatliners.
Thanks,
Marty
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