- Best newsreader for threads?
- Posted by Steve Josephs on February 20th, 2004
Which news readers do you people use? I'm using agent and I can't get
it to start a new thread when replying to an existing one, like so
many posters to this ng do. Is there a newsreader that dosn't do
threading at all?
- Posted by William Tasso on February 20th, 2004
Steve Josephs wrote:
Do what? They are two separate things. You either want to reply to a post
or start a new thread - I can't see the benefit of replying with a new
thread and any news client that does it should be strangled at birth.
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William Tasso
- Posted by Leonard Blaisdell on February 20th, 2004
In article <r1pb30h7fici0iio23579r33cqq9d4053v@4ax.com>, Steve Josephs
<webmaster@finger.anandalucia.com> wrote:
Good.
Probably, but you wouldn't want it. When you see a thread and reply to it,
the thing you *don't* want is to start a new thread. Why make discussion
on a thread discontiguous. That's probably not a word. At any rate, when
you see threads split within a newsgroup, it's usually not intentional.
Could anyone tell me when it might be proper?
Having said my piece and not waited for my question to be answered, if you
really want to start a new thread while replying to an existing one,
change the subject.
leo
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- Posted by Steve Josephs on February 20th, 2004
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:50:04 -0000, "William Tasso"
<SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote:
Take a look at OT: Fun time wasting puzzle and RE: Fun time wasting
puzzle threads
- Posted by Els on February 20th, 2004
Steve Josephs wrote:
That is one thread, starting with OT: and continued with RE:
And even changing the subject won't make it a new thread.
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Els
Mente humana é como pára-quedas; funciona melhor aberta.
- Posted by Gregory Toomey on February 20th, 2004
Steve Josephs wrote:
I think that your news server is automatically removing older articles &
this confuses your newsreader.
gtoomey
- Posted by Steve Josephs on February 20th, 2004
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:28:07 +0100, Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>
wrote:
I beg to disagree. It's two threads, one staring with OT: and the
other starting with RE:
A reply to th OT: topic would be Re:OT:etc
- Posted by Steve Josephs on February 20th, 2004
On 20 Feb 2004 11:30:41 GMT, Gregory Toomey <nospam@bigpond.com>
wrote:
I'm seeing this for todays posts and I use giganews which claims a
million years retention...
- Posted by William Tasso on February 20th, 2004
Steve Josephs wrote:
Ahhh - yep, now ISWYM - that's the way google threads (on subject).
Outlook Express (possibly other news clients) has a bug that kicks in when
the O/P has OT: .... as the subject. Replies replace the OT: rather than
including it. Those of us that use O/E try to remember to mod the subject
line to keep the threading simple for the archive - of course we don't
always remember.
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William Tasso
- Posted by William Tasso on February 20th, 2004
Steve Josephs wrote:
There's your problem - use a real news server and you'll get real threading.
a real news server (and it's free) --> http://news.individual.net
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William Tasso
