Along these lines when I signed up for the Google Groups I used my 
company email.  That was fine but my host server seemed to have a 
problem with the sheer volume of emails that the developer's group 
generates.  So I set up a gmail account and changed my profile to that.  
Might as well let Google take care of the volume.   That was last spring 
and to this day whenever I post it's like they sit on it for a day.  I 
know that when you first sign up and post they were supposed to sit on 
for a 24hrs but it has been months since I changed the email!  Anyone 
else have this problem too?

- Brian

Al Sutton wrote:
> I can see the reason why conversation which concluded several months ago is 
> considered more relevant to a search than a current work in progress. Old 
> closed threads tend to either end with a definitive answer or they're left 
> hanging showing no answer was available, whereas a current discussion may 
> still be in progress and thus may contain inaccuracies which may not yet have 
> been contested by another person.
>
> As for closing old threads, well, some threads an points aren't relevant 
> after 6 months. For example, 6 months ago you could say that Android didn't 
> officially support resolutions other than HVGA. It does now, but there is 
> little value in letting people add comments to a 6 month old thread just 
> trying to correct statements made at that time, so closing off old threads 
> and encouraging people to create new ones if they really want to continue a 
> long finished thread seems sensible as it wont pollute the original thread 
> with answers which may not have been applicable at the time.
>
> I don't see either as a bug, I can see the reasons behind the decisions to do 
> both, and they seem quite sensible.
>
> Al.
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> On 3 Jan 2010, at 12:02, Matt Kanninen wrote:
>
>   
>> Its a bug, or its a bug google chooses to promote dead threads.  They
>> drive traffic to dead out of date threads on google groups but prevent
>> someone replying with the current status on the sunject of a thread.
>>
>> if you use a stronger email client and subscribe an email client to a
>> thread its easy to resurrect a thrread.  I usually just hit reply to
>> author but instead send it to the group.   It makes it a lot easier to
>> continue tracking a live thread google has decided is dead, and it
>> makes it easy to quote a code snippet or bug report.
>>
>> But I still love poor google groups.  I can't pick a better client
>> side solution for most uses.
>>
>> On Dec 27 2009, 8:11 am, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>>> It's a feature. Those threads are too old, so they are dormant.
>>>
>>> I don't know what the cutoff is but it's something like six months or
>>> a year, after which they become read only.
>>>
>>> -John Coryat
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