NEVER MIND!

[Tim Hammerquist]

Delaney, Timothy graced us by uttering:
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> Firstly, may I suggest that you should have posted this in reply to your
> original thread, so that people will see it when they read that. My initial
> thought ws that this was in response to another problem that has been
> discussed recently.

For those of us who access these posts via comp.lang.python, _his_ post
(Subject: NEVER MIND!) _was_ listed as a reply to his original post,
since his References: header contained the Message-ID of his original
post.

Your reply (Subject: Re: NEVER MIND!), however, did _not_ show up as a
reply to either, since it completely lacked References: header.  As a
result, replies you make to messages often spawn entirely new threads
under a strict, reference-based threading system, even though threading
by Subject: header still works.  Because of this, unless I disable
strict threading in slrn, your replies and subsequent followups to them
show up in different threads elsewhere in the header window.

As I choose to use strict threading in my newsreader, I have never
complained that your posts don't give proper References: headers.
But the OP did post his message as a followup to his original, whether
or not his subject line reflected this.

To the OP: there is reason behind the tradition of the "Re:
subject_line" and "New_subject (was: old_subject)" subject headers. Not
respecting them may cause more confusion in the future, leading to less
people willing to reply.

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> Tim Delaney

HTH
Tim Hammerquist
-- 
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