After almost a year, I have finally updated the documentation on the
Cheap Threads website to reflect the new ct_return() function. See
my last couple of postings for a summary. The Freshmeat announcement
will probably come out tomorrow.

Also Yahoo! has notified me that they are about to shut down this
mailing list due to lack of activity. My post today will give it
another 90 days to live, and there may be a few more postings
generated from the Freshmeat announcement. However if there isn't
enough interest to keep the mailing list alive, I'm not going to post
occasional messages just to keep it on life support.

Ironically the only thing that kept it alive this long was spam.
Somehow we got onto somebody's sucker list and started to receive
various spam messages, many of them in some unintelligible font. I
changed the rules so as to allow posting only from registered
members, and that has kept the spammers out.

Unless there is an unexpected flurry of interest in Cheap Threads, I
don't plan to develop it much further -- not because it's dead but
because it's complete. It does what it's intended to do, correctly
so far as I know, and doesn't obviously need anything more. If you
want something further, you can probably build it yourself as an add-
on. If you can't add it without getting into the internals, maybe I
can help. You should be able to reach me by email even if the
mailing list disappears.

As Pieter Hintjens of iMatix once remarked (and I probably haven't
gotten the quote exactly right): don't confuse stability with
stagnation, nor change with progress.