Recent posts and replies missing issues in several GnuCash user threads

[Adrien Monteleone]

As noted, I don’t use the Gmail web interface. But macOS Mail doesn’t have it either. (I do miss Thunderbird for that reason) I simply hit reply-all and then delete the individuals’ emails, leaving only the list e-mail. It is annoying as I’d certainly prefer if Mail offered a reply-list option. Otherwise, I might set up a separate mailbox and switch mail clients just for this list, but I’d rather have everything in one place.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 1:50 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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