slowdown reminder

Roy C. Lackey · 09 Aug 2010, 18:22 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:22:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) slowdown reminder
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Fred Kiesche wrote:

> Is there some reason that the same (as far as I can tell) message threads
> are getting split again and again--same subject line, but gmail splits
them.

It is because some people's posts (Lee Berman), even when responding to an
existing thread, are sent to the List as if they were new threads with a new
subject line. That's why Lee's posts don't have the usual "Re:" at the
beginning of the subject line. I don't know why he does that. Maybe he has
the same problem that Jane Delawney has, that her mail server will not send
her a copy of her own posts unless she starts a new thread. I have had the
same problem she has since my mail server, though my email address does not
reflect it, became a bastardized form of gmail two years ago. I get around
the problem by just copying a copy of of my response post to the folder in
which I keep the other List posts, in the place where it would be if things
worked right.

-Roy

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