Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)