On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:45:11 -0500, beartooth <beartooth(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> There was a discussion about moving from a listserver format to a news
> format last month, and there were a bunch of people who were against
> that because they simply don't like going to a news reader to look at
> these messages.
>
> That being said, gmane does give people the flexibility to decide if
> they want to use it or not.
If any particular posters prefer email, more power to them; I never meant
to say otherwise. But there is a difference in that you may not get the
usual welcome message -- or not know to save it where you can find it.
[....]
> The most recent subject we have been discussing is the concept of
> changing a subject line to indicate a resolution for a problem. While
> that might work in a forum type environment, it still causes there to
> be multiple threads resulting from the same issue. Even gmane breaks
> threads like this sometimes.
OK, that's news to me. I've certainly seen threads it didn't break, where
the post beginning with [SOLVED] really stands out; I'm sorry to hear
that the other kind happens. I wonder what determines which ....
Earlier, someone kindly pointed me to several examples of threads on
GMANE that were intact, even with changed subject lines. I haven't
used GMANE regularly since I started using Gmail, about two months
now, but I do recall there being an issue at the time with some
threads becoming broken. That appears to be resolved now.
Gmail and MARC still seem to break threads though.