Starting New Threads In Google Groups
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Ted Durant
Jul 29, 2025, 5:49:03 PM7/29/25
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On Jul 29, 2025, at 4:18 PM, Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I view the list in Gmail. I meant to start a new thread; what did I miss?
I think if you reply to a message and change the subject line, the Google Groups system keeps the new messages under the existing thread despite the new subject. Starting a new thread has to be done explicitly. At least, that’s been my experience.
Normally I read messages in the digest in the Mail app on my Mac/iPhone. If I want to reply to something from the digest, I go to the Google Groups system in a browser. (Replying to the digest email is very confusing to the system.) If I have contributed to a thread, I become subscribed to that thread and I get the individual messages that follow. If replying to an individual message, I sometimes do that in my Mail app, sometimes in the Google Groups system in a browser. If I want to start a new thread, I do that in the Google Groups system in a browser.
I’m a fan of starting a new thread when the topic drifts, and I appreciated that you tried to do that here!
As an experiment, I've also sent this message as a reply to the previous thread. We'll see what they look like!
Ted Durant
Milwaukee, WI USA
> I view the list in Gmail. I meant to start a new thread; what did I miss?
I think if you reply to a message and change the subject line, the Google Groups system keeps the new messages under the existing thread despite the new subject. Starting a new thread has to be done explicitly. At least, that’s been my experience.
Normally I read messages in the digest in the Mail app on my Mac/iPhone. If I want to reply to something from the digest, I go to the Google Groups system in a browser. (Replying to the digest email is very confusing to the system.) If I have contributed to a thread, I become subscribed to that thread and I get the individual messages that follow. If replying to an individual message, I sometimes do that in my Mail app, sometimes in the Google Groups system in a browser. If I want to start a new thread, I do that in the Google Groups system in a browser.
I’m a fan of starting a new thread when the topic drifts, and I appreciated that you tried to do that here!
As an experiment, I've also sent this message as a reply to the previous thread. We'll see what they look like!
Ted Durant
Milwaukee, WI USA
Peter Adler
Aug 4, 2025, 9:02:54 PM8/4/25
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When it was still a Google Group, I vaguely remember that CR's emailed posts all had a footer with the email address for posting a new thread*, and another for unsubscribing**. I haven't looked at 650B/iBOB/RBWOB in an email app in almost fifteen years; do those emails not have the New Post and Unsubscribe links for the groups?
* which a lot of posters missed, posting back to whichever thread they were reading when they decided to post on a new subject - the thread drift syndrome at its most basic
** which almost everybody missed all the time; the number of general "I wanna unsubscribe because [insert concern/ personal situation/grievance HERE]" posts out in public where everyone could see them - that happened at least 5-10 times a year, every year, in spite of the fact that if they'd just sent the message to the "unsubscribe" address linked in every email footer, only the list admin would have seen it
Peter Adler
who's mystified by people who think that Google Groups are email lists, when they're really web forums with some email stuff pasted on
Berkeley, California
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