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[miskairal]

Hi Susan,
I finally found (stumbled upon) the alt.comp.freeware information posts.
I'm using Thunderbird and they all appear right at the top of the reader
as if they are the oldest posts but the weird thing is that the first
one I can see is dated 20/10/2005 and the rest all appear threaded to
that post as if they were replies ie.

alt.comp.freeware information 20/10/2005 11:49PM
alt.comp.freeware information 22/10/2005 4:19PM
alt.comp.freeware information 23/10/2005 2:47AM
etc.

Is this a quirk of thunderbird, is it something to do with my ISP, is
this how others see the posts or does it appear as a brand new post each
day?

When looking for the Wiki "word" I did a Thunderbird search for subject:
alt.comp.freeware information and no results were found.

Any ideas why this is happening. Makes me wonder what else I'm missing
as I don't often look at posts over a week old unless I've got plenty of
time on my hands.

Cheers
miskairal

 

[MLC]

giovedì 1 dicembre 2005 miskairal ha scritto:

Is this a quirk of thunderbird, is it something to do with my ISP, is
this how others see the posts or does it appear as a brand new post each
day?

I don't use Thunderbird, but AFAIK you have to turn off the "Threading by
subject" option and enable "Threading by references".

 

[Susan Bugher]

Hi Susan,
I finally found (stumbled upon) the alt.comp.freeware information posts.
I'm using Thunderbird and they all appear right at the top of the reader
as if they are the oldest posts but the weird thing is that the first
one I can see is dated 20/10/2005 and the rest all appear threaded to
that post as if they were replies ie.

alt.comp.freeware information 20/10/2005 11:49PM
alt.comp.freeware information 22/10/2005 4:19PM
alt.comp.freeware information 23/10/2005 2:47AM
etc.

Is this a quirk of thunderbird, is it something to do with my ISP, is
this how others see the posts or does it appear as a brand new post each
day?

Hi Miskairal,

Mozilla seems to be treating all the posts as one thread too. Google
shows some posts grouped as threads, some as single posts. . .

When looking for the Wiki "word" I did a Thunderbird search for subject:
alt.comp.freeware information and no results were found.

That search worked in Mozilla. Any chance you had a trailing blank space
at the end - dunno what else would cause the search to fail. Maybe try
searching just for alt.comp.freeware in the subject. . .

Any ideas why this is happening. Makes me wonder what else I'm missing
as I don't often look at posts over a week old unless I've got plenty of
time on my hands.

ISTM you should be seeing them. The posts are new even if they're added
to an old thread. I seem to be missing something here. . . do you just
read new threads?

Susan
--
Posted to alt.comp.freeware
Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online):
http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=+group:alt.comp.freeware
Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org
Pricelessware: http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained)

 

[miskairal]

giovedì 1 dicembre 2005 miskairal ha scritto:




I don't use Thunderbird, but AFAIK you have to turn off the "Threading by
subject" option and enable "Threading by references".

I can't see a setting like that in Thunderbird. What newsreader are you
using?

 

[miskairal]

Hi Miskairal,

Mozilla seems to be treating all the posts as one thread too. Google
shows some posts grouped as threads, some as single posts. . .

That's what happened with the PL programme Submittals here

That search worked in Mozilla. Any chance you had a trailing blank space
at the end - dunno what else would cause the search to fail. Maybe try
searching just for alt.comp.freeware in the subject. . .

Tried that and still nothing but now that I think about it I've only
donea few searches since using t/bird 1.0.6 and always come up with
nothing. Maybe I should update to 1.0.7. Groan.

ISTM you should be seeing them. The posts are new even if they're added
to an old thread. I seem to be missing something here. . . do you just
read new threads?

I have Thunderbird set to keep headers for 1 month but I usually only
look at the threads for the past week or two. Those info posts are
appended to the oldest one which is 1 month ago and the thread is
collapsed. I think I'll change T/bird to only keep headers for 2 weeks
and see what happens.

 

[MLC]

giovedì 1 dicembre 2005 miskairal ha scritto:

I can't see a setting like that in Thunderbird. What newsreader are you
using?

I use Dialog, but I've read in another NG that Thunderbird and Agent have
this feature. I can't verify it. If you can't see that setting, maybe this
info is not correct.

 

[Susan Bugher]

I have Thunderbird set to keep headers for 1 month but I usually only
look at the threads for the past week or two. Those info posts are
appended to the oldest one which is 1 month ago and the thread is
collapsed. I think I'll change T/bird to only keep headers for 2 weeks
and see what happens.

I don't know if Thunderbird works the same way but in Mozilla you can
use the keyboard to navigate => "n" takes you to the next unread post
(collapsed threads open as you go from post to post). I just start at
the top and keep going down. . .

Susan
--
Posted to alt.comp.freeware
Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online):
http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=+group:alt.comp.freeware
Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org
Pricelessware: http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained)

 

[dszady]

Hi Susan,
I finally found (stumbled upon) the alt.comp.freeware information posts.
I'm using Thunderbird and they all appear right at the top of the reader
as if they are the oldest posts but the weird thing is that the first
one I can see is dated 20/10/2005 and the rest all appear threaded to
that post as if they were replies ie.

alt.comp.freeware information 20/10/2005 11:49PM
alt.comp.freeware information 22/10/2005 4:19PM
alt.comp.freeware information 23/10/2005 2:47AM
etc.

[...]
View > Sort by > Order received
View > Sort by > Descending
View > Sort by > Threaded

View > Threads > All
View > Threads > Expand All Threads

 

[miskairal]

Hi Susan,
I finally found (stumbled upon) the alt.comp.freeware information
posts. I'm using Thunderbird and they all appear right at the top of
the reader as if they are the oldest posts but the weird thing is that
the first one I can see is dated 20/10/2005 and the rest all appear
threaded to that post as if they were replies ie.

alt.comp.freeware information 20/10/2005 11:49PM
alt.comp.freeware information 22/10/2005 4:19PM
alt.comp.freeware information 23/10/2005 2:47AM
etc.

[...]
View > Sort by > Order received
View > Sort by > Descending
View > Sort by > Threaded

View > Threads > All
View > Threads > Expand All Threads

Hmm, that's what I have except Ascending instead of descending. I think
I might do another run through heaps of newsreaders again as I haven't
done that for a few years.
Thanks!

 

[miskairal]

It seems to work the same way but I use the arrow keys, I just don't
start at the top. I still don't understand why your daily posts are not
totally separate but I s'pose I never will. The games and freeware links
by Mark Carter are.
Thanks for your trouble Susan.