META Culture of this place [was Re: for / while else doesn't make sense]

[Paul Rubin]

Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> writes:
> Once the tone gets to picking apart any detail, no matter how trivial, it's
> just turned into a contest to see who can be more right.

It helps to use a threaded news/mail reader (I use gnus).  When a
subtopic starts going off the fails, hitting control-K marks the rest of
the thread as read.  I do that all the time.