Help: Any way to kill a thread

Subject: Any way to kill a thread?
From: Goodfellow
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 01:16 AM

Is there anyway to kill a thread that you had the misfortune of starting?

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 01:19 AM

Ask Joe or one of the helpers to dlete it, click on help at the tip off the page.john

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 01:44 AM

Goodfellow, I sent you a PM. Do you know how to get to your personal page so you can read it? If not, try clicking THIS.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 01:49 AM

Unfortunately, Mr. Goodfellow,

There are several dozen (hundred?) "bots" roaming the net....recording EVERY-BIT of trivia, in EVERY-LITTLE corner of the WWW.

While it may appear that you are writing in the misty ethers of cyber-space.....in reality....you have created a concrete transcript saved within the digital records of a universal archive.

Trust Me!!!

Once, (pre-millenium) I was nieve like you. However, when postings which I made in 1994 resurrected themselves...the PERMANENT REALITY of the neather-lands became apparent.

Sincerley,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 02:09 AM

Once a thread has been posted to, it usually will not be deleted, unless it is a personal attack.

As mentioned, you can post to the Help Forum and ask Joe Offer or one of the "joeclones" for help with it; or you can send him a Personal Message via your Personal Page.

Welcome to the Mudcat,

kat

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 02:28 AM

Well, usually, it's best to ask Joe Offer or Pene Azul privately. Ordinarily, the Clones are supposed to edit or delete technical mistakes only, and Pene and I take care of matters that involve more ticklish problems. Once there have been replies, we are very reluctant to delete messages or threads.
I have been combining some threads when there are multiple threads on the same topics. We also occasionally delete threads that appear to have been started just to make trouble.
Sometimes, people ask me to delete a thread because they've asked a question and then somebody posted an answer and they got the information they need. We almost always leave threads like that alone, because somebody else might need that same information.
Oh, and we kill duplicate threads without being asked.
-Joe Offer-
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: DougR
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 02:32 AM

Lotsa luck, others of us have been there, done that.

DougR

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Hrothgar
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 07:51 AM

If that's the worst thing you ever did, you're doing well!

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 09:08 AM

How to kill a thread?
Read Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragon' books.
("Thread" is a living rain of a flesh and flora eating life form)

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 05:02 PM

Goodfellow, you may be sure that the CIA, MI5 and even the Chinese keep track of chat locations. That well-dressed man in the dark suit could appear at your door any day! Joe might delete it, but it is already on record somewhere, as Gargoyle points out.

Hmmm, could your remark be construed as libelous? Sign me: Legal scout for litigious lawyers.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 06:15 PM

Goodfellow, why would you want to delete any thread you started ? I see you have only started two threads, neither of which would seem cause for turbulence.

However, my natural curiosity leads me to ask why you enquire about sessions in Edinburgh and Cockermouth in one thread, and sessions in San Diego in the next. I mean, I have been to sessions in Edinburgh, also to sessions in San Diego, and I am amazed that anybody else should have pursued a similar path.

Any elucidation gratefully accepted.

Murray

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 03:44 PM

Murray: have you trouble counting ?! you say Goodfellow has started only two threads, and in one he mentions Edinburgh & Cockermouth, and in the other he mentions San Diego.
Is this thread to which I am adding a comment merely a figment of my overworked imagination ? *BG*

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: michaelr
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 03:52 PM

Best way to kill a thread: post some really boring or pedantic comment. Happens all the time here...

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Banjer
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 05:32 PM

just PM me and ask me to post to your unwanted threads. It seems most of the threads I post to sink to the bottom of the list like a lead weight!

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 06:02 PM

gargoyle is right. There are sites that have started (dunno if they are still going) to archive everything ever said and they were live. It was mooted to be a nightmare for litgation, where a site that had been sued and retracted fully, only to have their misdemeanour still offending!
Desperately Seeking Sue?

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 07:38 PM

whats an elucidaton?

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 07:47 PM

I was hoping someone had managed to resurrect the "Killing The Thread" thread, a Mudcat classic.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Noreen
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 09:26 PM

A clarification, John, or explanation.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 09:45 PM

SINSULL, I actually found the thread which I shall not name (the un-dead thread), not too long ago, but I'm not telling where it is. Not unless someone's prepared to drive a wooden stake through its heart. (And I ain't resurrecting it.)

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 10:19 PM

I found it too. But when you try to add a post, it is truncated, partially aborted, not its true self. Killed, I guess.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 10:20 PM

OMIGOD! It's a zombie now!

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: hesperis
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 10:21 PM

I got 4-hundred-something of the posts from it, but didn't save it later when it got to over 500... :(

However, if anyone wants it, PM me your email.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: MMario
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 12:45 PM

hesperis - don't take this the wrong way - but that's more then a little sick! *grin*

Nigel - to do a really good job of the thread requires three anit-matter engines and a wee bit of time travel. It sorta gets complicated.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: open mike
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 03:51 PM

i found a thread that got killed by being removed from the server by ragtime at onstage media dot com- who's that?? and what's up with that??

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 05:38 PM

Hi, Open Mike - well, Ragtime is one of our servers, and onstagemedia is a company owned by Max Spiegel, who also is the owner of the Mudcat Cafe.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 03:55 PM

Get it stuck in a do loop and it will eat its tail, ad infinitum, like the worm Oroborus.

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 04:56 PM

Well, whatever the case, I never did hear from Goodfellow, and never did find out what he wanted deleted and why.
Oh, well...
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 05:05 PM

That's because it all got addressed via PM, Joe. *G*

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 07:24 PM

Okey-dokey...

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 08:39 PM

I see a really bad b or c grade movie: ATTACK OF THE KILLER THREAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE!

A GoodFellow production Starring Chuck u. farley and his whole fam damnily Directed by John "Trollmeister" Ashcroft script by goodfellow catered by the roadkill cafe Etc ad nauseum editing by Irish sergeant with a 10.0 hangover on the richter scale LOL DON'T TAke it serious people, I'm not going to! Neil

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 07:01 AM

MMario: we don't yet know whether that solution was permanent, and anyway, Dragons were killing threads. The solution you mention was to remove their vector of propagation, not to destroy them! (and does anyone else know what we're talking about ?)

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 08:06 AM

Oh yeah!

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: jeffp
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 09:53 AM

More or Lessa

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: My guru always said
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 10:06 AM

We all need a Ruth now & again *s*

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 10:10 AM

nigel - o ye of little faith!

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 11:12 AM

MyGuru: of course we do, or we'd be ruthless! *BG*

Subject: RE: Help: Any way to kill a thread
From: Hrothgar
Date: 13 Jun 02 - 03:26 AM

Look at it this way - after three dozen posts, it's respectable!