On 12 Feb 2002, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:42:45AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > > > As for the '?', that represents a gap in the threading from messages > > either missing or not being shown in the current limit pattern. > > A recently introduced feature, I think, and controlled by hide_missing. > Not necessarily very well, but that is likely to change. > > Brian. > >
Thanks to all for replies. I thought this must be the explanation but the new feature seems to have arrived unheralded so far as I am concerned. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]