usenet replies breaking threads [was Bloody plumbers]
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Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
So would outlook express and various other readers. Usually because they
ignore the references headers altogether, and just thread on message
titles. (hence why a title change will break threading on some newsreaders)
Can you chaps kindly take your boring sub-thread about newsreaders etc
offline or at least retitle your subthread? I keep checking in look for
juicy details of some plumbing disaster only to find zzzzzzz zonk -
head slumps onto keyboard
Ah well, changing the title of posts in this thread will make this appear as
a new thread in readers that just use the subject line to make the connection.
Clients using the headers will show it as a changed subject under the main
thread (assuming my client is working - it did when I compiled it 14 years
ago :-))
Darren
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