How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you in"

In article ,
"Paper2002AD" oreply says...
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?

(1) It's not a board, it's a newsgroup.
(2) Get a proper ISP
(3) Use a sig separator
(4) What software are you using?

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:51:24 +0000, Paper2002AD wrote:

How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you
in"

Its a Usenet group, not a board and AOL appear to be having problems, not
surprising !!.
Try using a different news provider like news.individual.net and maybe do
some reading on how Usenet works.

Dave


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Paper2002AD wrote:
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let
you in"

AOL's newsgroup feed isn't working properly at the moment. It's been
down for about 6 days now. It happens every now and then but is usually
fixed within a day. I guess the delay is because it's happened over the
holidays. You can inform them at keyword 'Tell Us'. If enough people do
so maybe they'll fix it quicker.

In article ,
Paper2002AD wrote:
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?

How do you get a Lada to do 150 mph?

Ditch it and get something that works...

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Paper2002AD wrote:
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you in"

Think you should rephrase the question to:

"How can I get this board to group threads when viewing in bl**dy AOL?"

(and sorry, I don't know; I normally only say "AOL" in the same sentence
as words like "bargepole". QED!

David

On 02 Jan 2005 22:51:24 GMT, oreply (Paper2002AD)
wrote:

How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you in"

Those who live in Glass Houses should not throw stones
Thoes who use AOL should not complain.

Rick

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:38:49 GMT, Lobster
strung together this:

Think you should rephrase the question to:

"How can I get this board to group threads when viewing in bl**dy AOL?"

What, this board? Or do you mean group?
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:18:10 +0000, Lurch wrote:

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:38:49 GMT, Lobster
strung together this:

Think you should rephrase the question to:

"How can I get this board to group threads when viewing in bl**dy AOL?"

What, this board? Or do you mean group?

He's using AOL lurch, be gentle !!

Dave

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Huge wrote:

You forgot one;

(5) Get Google to stop breaking the References: header which newsreaders use
to correctly display threads.

I don't think we can blame Google for this one, only Dave Baker (sorry
to name and shame) has used Deja to reply to this thread and even then
the (singular) reference looks intact to me.

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:06:44 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Paper2002AD wrote:
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?

How do you get a Lada to do 150 mph?

Attach a Space Hhuttle booster to it, light blue touch paper and
retire. Look on eBay for engine mounting brackets.

K

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:42:06 +0000, Andy Burns
strung together this:

Huge wrote:

You forgot one;

(5) Get Google to stop breaking the References: header which newsreaders use
to correctly display threads.

I don't think we can blame Google for this one, only Dave Baker (sorry
to name and shame) has used Deja to reply to this thread and even then
the (singular) reference looks intact to me.

For some reason Google seems to leave one reference in, but it screws
it up if there are several.
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On 02 Jan 2005 22:51:24 GMT, oreply (Paper2002AD)
wrote:

How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you in"

Ask Eh Oh Hell Inc. to introduce a functional newsreader.

Dave Baker wrote:
Paper2002AD wrote:

How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let
you in"

AOL's newsgroup feed isn't working properly at the moment. It's been
down for about 6 days now. It happens every now and then but is usually
fixed within a day. I guess the delay is because it's happened over the
holidays. You can inform them at keyword 'Tell Us'. If enough people do
so maybe they'll fix it quicker.


Mm. Maybe the regulars here should all try the same tack by emailing
, to try and get them to fix their their crappy
message headers and threading?!

David

In message , Lobster
wrote


Mm. Maybe the regulars here should all try the same tack by emailing
, to try and get them to fix their their crappy
message headers and threading?!


Why bother? Just filter out anything that originates from Google.

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Alan

In article , "Huge"
says...
Rob Morley writes:
In article ,
"Paper2002AD" oreply says...
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?

(1) It's not a board, it's a newsgroup.
(2) Get a proper ISP
(3) Use a sig separator
(4) What software are you using?

You forgot one;

(5) Get Google to stop breaking the References: header which newsreaders use
to correctly display threads.

Or killfile people who post through Google Groups so it doesn't mess
up the threading :-)

Lurch wrote:

For some reason Google seems to leave one reference in, but it screws
it up if there are several.

I though so, but in this case the google message was a direct reply to
the head of the thread so that was all it should have had anyway ...

Alan wrote:
In message , Lobster
wrote


Mm. Maybe the regulars here should all try the same tack by emailing
, to try and get them to fix their their crappy
message headers and threading?!


Why bother? Just filter out anything that originates from Google.


Well,

(a) some useful stuff does emanates from google posters and I'd rather
not lose it; and

(b) (more significantly!) filtering will need to be very clever to trap
any replies made by 'normal' posters to messages from google posters; so
these will appear as 'orphan' threads anyway.

David

"Dave Stanton" wrote in message
news
Its a Usenet group, not a board and AOL appear to be having problems, not
surprising !!.

Aol is a quick fix incorporating all that is worst in tch boards. You
get a tiny window (an AOL special) and it takes forever to post (not
even Google does that any more.)

You message is wiped as soon as you post and you can neither see where
you are going nor where you have been. Also it looks as naff as hell.

I use Mailgate Org but they are not looking for new members. Google
posts I make show up on it fine but it loses some of the others and
people like Huge show up but the message wont open.

You have to get help with setting up another newsgroup server. I have
never been able to suss it out.


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You have to get help with setting up another newsgroup server. I have
never been able to suss it out.

Why are you telling me ?. I don't use Assholes on Line.

Dave

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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:31:06 +0000, Kat wrote:

On 02 Jan 2005 22:51:24 GMT, oreply (Paper2002AD)
wrote:

How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you
in"

Ask Eh Oh Hell Inc. to introduce a functional newsreader.

There goes that flying pig.........

Dave

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Paper2002AD wrote:
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you in"


Register an account with 'news.individual.net' then use Outlook Express,
or any other newsreader.

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:02:08 +0000, Sloper
strung together this:

Register an account with 'news.individual.net'

Definitely.

then use Outlook Express,

May as well stick with AOL as that's as bad.

or any other newsreader.

Yep, Forte Free Agent works well, and is free!
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In article , "Lobster"
says...
Alan wrote:
In message , Lobster
wrote


Mm. Maybe the regulars here should all try the same tack by emailing
, to try and get them to fix their their crappy
message headers and threading?!


Why bother? Just filter out anything that originates from Google.


Well,

(a) some useful stuff does emanates from google posters and I'd rather
not lose it; and

(b) (more significantly!) filtering will need to be very clever to trap
any replies made by 'normal' posters to messages from google posters; so
these will appear as 'orphan' threads anyway.


(a) If everyone ignored Google posts the people using Google would
find another method of posting that doesn't screw things up.

(b) You're right - I've played with the rules and although I can
filter a lot of the replies I can't get them all :-(

In article , "Lurch"
says...
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:02:08 +0000, Sloper
strung together this:

Register an account with 'news.individual.net'

Definitely.

then use Outlook Express,

May as well stick with AOL as that's as bad.

or any other newsreader.

Yep, Forte Free Agent works well, and is free!

Ditto Gravity, XanaNews, Thunderbird ...

Lurch wrote:

then use Outlook Express,


May as well stick with AOL as that's as bad.


or any other newsreader.


Yep, Forte Free Agent works well, and is free!

As is Outlook Express, and I'd hazard a guess that the OP already has
it. I used OE for years without a problem - it works fine, and is
nothing like the AOL newsreader at all.

I use Mozilla's news and mail reader now though - part of my anti-spam
measures.

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:07:45 +0000, Sloper
strung together this:

Yep, Forte Free Agent works well, and is free!

As is Outlook Express,

Hmm, depends how you would define 'works well'.

I use Mozilla's news and mail reader now though -

Much better, I've been using it for a while for email.
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In message , Paper2002AD
writes
How can I get this bl**dy board to group threads when viewing in AOL?
"Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to let you in"

Change ISP ?

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