kashani wrote:
On 6/24/2011 5:09 PM, David W Noon wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:12:26 -0700, kashani wrote about [gentoo-user]
Don't start a new thread by changing the subject:
I've noticed this a couple of times this week. A few of you
have responded to the annoying Fortran thread, changed the subject,
started a new message, and sent the email starting a new thread.
You're a week or two behind the times. The root cause of this was done
to death some time ago. It is the bofh.it NNTP server that propagates
this mailing list through Usenet. There is nothing we can do except
avoid using servers downstream from that rogue server.
My understanding is that the NNTP server was munging headers
thereby creating new threads where it should have been a single
thread. This is users responding to an existing email, removing all
content, changing the subject, and then sending the mail which keeps
the thread headers and make it appear to be part of the current
thread. I see it all the time on the motorcycle lists where the
average user is much less computer proficient.
kashani
Well, I don't see where anyone did that to the fortran thread here. All
posts have the same subject line. Maybe something is wrong on your end?
Dale
:-) :-)
