Just curious

[Ken Parkes]

I understand usual practise to involve responding to a posting within the
original thread. In this group there seem to be many responses to a
question which start a new thread; viz. <new python book!!> by vegetax
leads to a new thread <Re:new python book!!> by Gerrit. Ditto <How does
this function work?>. Is this a peculiarity of something Pythonites are
using, or is there a different protocol here?

Ken.

 

[Alex Martelli]

I understand usual practise to involve responding to a posting within the
original thread. In this group there seem to be many responses to a
question which start a new thread; viz. <new python book!!> by vegetax
leads to a new thread <Re:new python book!!> by Gerrit. Ditto <How does
this function work?>. Is this a peculiarity of something Pythonites are
using, or is there a different protocol here?

I'm just guessing, and I could be wrong, but I think you're noticing the
artefacts from some people following this as a newsgroup (NNTP) and
others as a mailing list (SMTP/POP/IMAP/whatever). Apparently some
headers get mangled in such a way that your reader loses track of the
threads (so does the one I'm using these days -- MacSOUP -- but the one
I used to use, KNode, had no such problem).


Alex

 

[Robert Kern]

I understand usual practise to involve responding to a posting within the
original thread. In this group there seem to be many responses to a
question which start a new thread; viz. <new python book!!> by vegetax
leads to a new thread <Re:new python book!!> by Gerrit. Ditto <How does
this function work?>. Is this a peculiarity of something Pythonites are
using, or is there a different protocol here?

Some people are reading from and responding to c.l.py from the mailing
list interface. Their responses don't always thread correctly in some
newsreaders.

I will note that Thunderbird usually places responses in the right
thread if not always in the right place. And sometimes it starts new
threads from replies, too, so it's not perfect.

Ken.

--
Robert Kern
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"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

 

[Jeffrey Froman]

Apparently some
headers get mangled in such a way that your reader loses track of the
threads (so does the one I'm using these days -- MacSOUP -- but the one
I used to use, KNode, had no such problem).

Using KNode here, and I see this happen regularly with c.l.p. as well. I
wind up using the search feature a lot to find the original post.

Jeffrey

 

[Ken Parkes]

Using KNode here, and I see this happen regularly with c.l.p. as well. I
wind up using the search feature a lot to find the original post.

Jeffrey

Been looking at a few groups I would expect to have lots of mailing list
contacts - linux kernel, debian, etc - and they shew the same effect.
looks as though Robert Kern and Alex Martelli have won the prize

Ken.