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Canaldrifter
<adr...@spam.com> writes
>On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:09:31 +0000, Martin Clark <mar...@spl.at>
>wrote:
>>Sadly, that wouldn't help everyone as many news readers will continue to
>>show the new posts under the original thread title. The user will only
>>see the new subject line if they examine the thread tree or when they
>>open the message itself.
>Hmm. That would be annoying. Is that another "feature" of Outlook?
>I'm fairly sure Free Agent starts a new thread if I change the subject
>line on a reply. If so, another good reason for using it, I guess.
If you think about it, your server is performing a con trick - it's
telling you it's formed a new thread, even though you didn't even
attempt to form a new thread - you simply changed the subject heading
in
an existing thread, which isn't quite the same thing. So FA tells you
that you've done something which you haven't. Best simply to do what
you
intend... start a new thread, don't just change the subject heading.
Then we can all see it's a new thread, instead of just those who've
been
conned.
--
David Long
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Tony H
Steve Atty
<canald...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
Forte Agent supports the following options in the Tools - Options -
Display - Message List Pane :
Enable threading by subject
and
Start a new Thread when a follow up subject changes.
These are selected by default (probably because people get sick and
fed up of not being able to tell easily if a topic goes off thread).
So Agent basically fixes a problem caused by people being lazy ;)
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David Long
<nos...@tty.org.uk> writes
recipients, is not what it creates. The only sure way of starting a new
thread which is in actual fact a new thread for all readers of the ng is
to create one.
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David Long
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Neil
Seems to me, that if people generally, abided by the rules that have worked
for many many years in posting, instead of thinking that they can change
rules, convert to text speak , top posting, etc etc, it would work fine. Why
do we all need different programs to allow for people who cannot be bothered
to use things correctly?
If you cannot be bothered to learn how things are done, dont bother....go
somewhere else?
And dont get me started on the fact that "normal" english seems to be an art
that is frowned upon....
Neil
Nick Atty
wrote:
I think - and this is all from memory so may be rubbish...
An early popular newsreader (early in the sense of early modern - for
Microsoft PCs) had a flaw where it regularly lost references headers
(which - for those who don't know - are how threading always worked
perfectly in the days before the neverending September). So some other
(or maybe the same one) popular newsreader "fixed" this by using subject
instead.
Either of these may or may not have been Microsoft. I'd be surprised if
neither were, but I've been surprised before.
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