Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes, the old Usenet References: header. It was a great innovation for threaded newsreaders such as 'nn' which I think 'rn' adopted too. I am dating myself.
Yes the References header is critical for threaded readers, which I can only assume the GG web reader obeys too. On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 2:11 AM PGage, <[email protected]> wrote: > That would be me. I have been doing the same thing literally for years, I > did not realize it was such a problem. I will try to change my ways. > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 8:31 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Diner, to PGage, Tuesday (8/14): >> >>> Once again Google Groups users are getting two threads combined. >>> Anyone know what the issue could be this time? >>> >>>> >> One of you folks reported once that when they want to start new threads, >> they take an existing post, hit reply, edit out both subject and body, and >> go ahead with entering their new post. >> >> The only problem with that is, the headers of the post to which they >> reply, which they would usually not see (I don't in GG web either), include >> "References:" which refers back to the earlier post(s) in the thread whose >> subject they edited out! >> >> I'm stopping short of ripping a new one for whoever does this... to each >> his own, but this is what I suspect leads to new subjects appearing within >> a thread, as it does in the web version. >> >> And, no offence, but the solution is to (1) put >> [email protected] in your address book, and (2) (right?)click >> on said entry and select "new message" or whatever you need to do. >> >> >> B >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
