Showing results for September 4, 2007 - The Old New Thing

It's the season where people with fruit trees in their yard are drowning in fresh fruit, be they pears, apples, plums, whatever. It's not long before you find yourself desperately looking for people to give it away to, having pretty much run out of things you can make plums into. This is where Community Fruit Tree Harvest steps in. (Coverage in ...

Let me get this out of the way up front: Creating a thread from is not recommended. The discussion here has to do with explaining the behavior you may observe if you violate this advice. Commenter Pete points out that "according to Usenet" creating a thread in is supposed to deadlock, but that's not what he saw. All he saw was that the thread ...