Dave Hinz wrote:
OK, but you should know that because you're posting from google, and
your posts don't include any context, people don't know what or who this
is in response to unless the go out of their way to back-track the
thread.

Not "people" in general, only people who don't know how to use their
newsreaders or who are reading news from news servers with poor thread
completion issues. In your case, I believe you're looking for the slrn
command 'ESC p'.

When posting to Usenet, you should generally _not_ quote chunks of a
previous post text "for context" like you would in an email. There are
times when it's appropriate, of course, for example I do it above with
your comments specifically because of the thread-following difficulty
you're having. Usenet posts get distributed to millions of servers
worldwide where such a data redundancy is an unnecessary and huge waste
of computer resources. The whole point of threaded news is that your
newsreader does the work of the linking the threads using the message
reference IDs. When this is achieved, quoting of the post immediately
previous is normally unnecessary.

Google is not the problem, by the way, Google handles the message and
reference IDs correctly. It sounds to me like you have some beef with
Google or Google posters that is misguided.

-Adam