On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:45:11 -0500, beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
