Strange Discussion Threads (OT from: Re: [Discuss] Stagnation onthe EC)

[psymann]

Timothy Collett wrote:
> Well, that's probably your problem anyway, because other than the 
> out-of-order messages (which, as LilWolf mentioned, are caused by the 
> sender's clock being set wrong), and the occasional user with 
> misconfigured client settings creating new threads inadvertently, I have 
> no problems with threading.
> 
> You can run Thunderbird on Windows; a lot of people do (I do, when I use 
> Windows).  Check it out at www.mozilla.com--it's completely free.

Thanks, have installed it, and it's (unsurprisingly) rather nicer than 
Outlook Express :-)

Sadly, the threads are still all over the place - I can see I'm just 
going to have to get used to that.  Unless I've done something wrong, 
here is an image showing how many threads are split into two - or even 
three - in different places.  Trying to follow them is testing.

http://uk.geocities.com/psymann@btinternet.com/misc/newsgroupbattlemaster.gif

The red lines show the threads that should be as one.

Also, annoyingly, both Thunderbird and Outlook Express ignore the 
dash-dash-space before signatures when replying to the newsgroup - 
making it rather pointless everyone bothering to add it in the first 
place, but hey ho.  I'm sure that there are even better software options 
that are more compliant out there... but I'll settle with this for now.

Ok, I'm going to spend less time moaning and more time reading :-) ..and 
killing Eston of course... well, trying to.

psymann