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.montele...@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....@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 > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.