No reply link

[Ed Zwart]

I've run into this before on groups that I'm subscribed to, where I
read a post (eg, http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/2f125c7afb0d48d3),
and don't see a reply button. I only see the options "Reply to
author" and "Forward"

What's the deal?

The reason I'm asking is that I want to ask a question in the context
of that thread. I could do that with a new thread and refer to it
(like I'm doing here), but what's the point of requiring that?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of threaded content?

What am I missing? Thanks

e.

[Sumit Chandel]

Hi Ed,

It's possible that you weren't signed in when you revisited the thread. Can you double-check and confirm whether you're still not seeing a reply link while signed into your Google account?

Thanks,
-Sumit Chandel

[Ian Bambury]

Google doesn't allow you to reply to messages which are over two months old if you are using the web interface (about 2 months anyway, it might be 60 days or something else close).

 

If you are replying to an email, then they let you reply to anything, any time. At least, that's my experience.

 

 

Ian

2008/7/29 Sumit Chandel <sumitc...@google.com>

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[Sumit Chandel]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that...

Unfortunately, Ian speaks the truth in that there is a Groups bug / feature (depending on how you look at it) that disables replies to old threads (2 months old sounds right).

If you're subscribed to the discussion group via email, you might be able to get around this issue by posting back to a thread via email. Otherwise, feel free to create a new thread and reference the old one therein.

Cheers,
-Sumit Chandel

[Ed Zwart]

Thanks, that's exactly what it was. I was able to post to the group
like so (for anyone with the same problem...)

From the original group posting, I used the "Forward" link at the
bottom of any of the messages in the thread, and forwarded to my own
email.

I then forwarded that message from my inbox to Google-Web-
Too...@googlegroups.com. I edited the subject to be "Re:" instead of
"Fwd:", and stripped all the quoted text.

I did it this way to get the Message-ID email header field in my post
to Google-We...@googlegroups.com. There might be a better way
to do this, but it worked for me! :)

e.

On Jul 28, 9:53 pm, "Sumit Chandel" <sumitchan...@google.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, I forgot about that...
>
> Unfortunately, Ian speaks the truth in that there is a Groups bug / feature
> (depending on how you look at it) that disables replies to old threads (2
> months old sounds right).
>
> If you're subscribed to the discussion group via email, you might be able to
> get around this issue by posting back to a thread via email. Otherwise, feel
> free to create a new thread and reference the old one therein.
>
> Cheers,
> -Sumit Chandel
>

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Google doesn't allow you to reply to messages which are over two months old
> > if you are using the web interface (about 2 months anyway, it might be 60
> > days or something else close).
>
> > If you are replying to an email, then they let you reply to anything, any
> > time. At least, that's my experience.
>
> > Ian
>

> > 2008/7/29 Sumit Chandel <sumitchan...@google.com>

>
> >> Hi Ed,
>
> >> It's possible that you weren't signed in when you revisited the thread.
> >> Can you double-check and confirm whether you're still not seeing a reply
> >> link while signed into your Google account?
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Sumit Chandel
>

> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Ed Zwart <ed.zw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> I've run into this before on groups that I'm subscribed to, where I
> >>> read a post (eg,

> >>>http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/threa...
> >>> ),