It might also be a matter of email applications. For those using the far inferior non-gmail applications, such as Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. (I kid, I kid!...but only a little), the lack of "conversation" style email handling may be leading to bugs like the addition of 'Re:', which to the group software is a different topic. Our email, of course, never adds that since it's all the same subject within a conversation.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I might have caught whiff of a weird one -- any help appreciated. > It looks like topic titles are changing for email subscribers but not on the > web-based discussion. This is certainly true for Gmail email accounts. > > For example this thread about control is a single thread on the website: > > > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/Minds-Eye/browse_thread/thread/9c63f7373bb520a9/b0b3d31034d1fe8f > > However, via Gmail it split into a new thread on the 25th (when Fran's post > pushed it over the 99 email limit in a Gmail email thread). At this point > Deripsni's post changed its subject line to "[Mind's Eye] Re: Are you in > control?". I think this is what usually happens, but if anyone can confirm > that would be helpful. In other words, I think this subject change is okay. > > However, it then became another (third) new thread with a subject of > "[Mind's Eye] Re: The control issue?". My suspicion was that Deripsni had > done this manually, but they insist they haven't done so. I also thought > that the web-based discussion shows you when a topic's title is changed, but > I can see no evidence of this on this occasion. > > Next, Slip started a new (forth!) thread titled "The Control Issue". Not > ideal, but at least it's pretty clear what happened for this one. > > Has anyone else spotted this oddness? > > Ian > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
