Recent posts and replies missing issues in several GnuCash user threads

[David Carlson]

In Gmail I do not see an option to reply-To-List.

That does seem to be logical if I could figure out how to do it.

David C


On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I too noticed a change about a month or two ago. Perhaps it was happening
> before, but it seems more frequent lately.
>
> My subscribed address is Gmail, but I use macOS mail client on my desktop
> so it’s not a web vs. client issue.
>
> So far that I can tell, it appears though that the issue may not be Gmail,
> but rather people hitting the reply button instead of new/compose. It seems
> they are taking the advice to change the subject line appropriately, but
> that still breaks the thread. (threading is by message id, not subject
> text) I investigated a few such threads by viewing By Thread on the archive
> page. Sure enough, subject lines changed in several threads, and it was the
> same few users in each case causing the issue.
>
> What I have noticed as odd is that posts appear to be re-sending. (at
> least OPs from newbies) One of these I determined was a real re-post, I
> didn’t investigate the others to see if they were in fact re-posted or if
> the mailman server was re-sending them. Sometimes this happens for replies
> too. So I’ll see a thread, maybe even participate in it, and then 3 days
> later, the OP appears again fresh and new. At least in the one case that
> was an actual repost, I suspect the OP did not check to see if they
> received a reply from the list, or else, it’s possible to post to the list
> without subscribing. (I didn’t think this was possible) If the latter is
> the case, then if they don’t subscribe, they won’t get any replies sent
> back *only* to the list. The usual tell-tale for this is a newbie posts a
> question, several people chime in with answers, and the OP never responds
> again. Then they repost the original question.
>
> Personally, I reply-to-list. I do not ‘reply-all’. Reply-all will send to
> the list AND each sender (depending on the message you are replying to)
> which then means those people get multiple copies. I personally don’t care
> to deal with duplicates of the same message, so I try to avoid it for
> others. But if people can post without subscribing, that means they’ll
> never see my reply. (or the reply of anyone else only replying to the list)
> Does Nabble allow people to post and not subscribe? Perhaps they are using
> Nabble and then loosing track of the thread to see replies? Maybe they
> don’t know how to find their own threads? (I’m not a Nabble user)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Mar 22, 2018, at 8:01 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have noticed an issue on my computer recently that Gmail is not always
> > correctly displaying threads from the GnuCash user maillists.  I have
> > usually been able to find the missing items by scrolling through the
> > threads, but then I see all the duplicated text in the replies and I get
> > even more confused.
> >
> > This could be affecting other users as well.
> >
> > David C
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