Hello everyone

I know this is partly to do with things getting added to headers like "Re" but if you take two recent threads in this very group,

/g/GroupManagersForum/message/44002
and
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/99392063#44058

the first one only appears just once on my web browser with 9 messages if you open it will the second one appears multiple times with 45 messages if you open any one of them

I see to that when I copied the links to discuss this, one link includes the word "message" and the other one "topic".

That aside, this behaviour has always confused me and is another reason why I find the IO group forum hard to follow at times plus it eats up my screen estate (the second thread).

And how should modified headers be controlled? I mean where the header gets modified by the user or their software and then appears like a separate topic with a similar name

Thanks

Just something - on the group home page you can have your messages grouped by topic, by messages and by expanded messages.?

About similar topics that should be one topic - you can merge them. All in the help.?

Frances
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/g/GroupManagersForum/message/44002
and
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/99392063#44058

This is because those are two different views as Frances said.?

The first one is a direct link to a message in (single) Message view, so it displays just that message (the number is the message id) with the rest of the thread collapsed, but which you can expand, when you click the View All x Messages In Topic.? That changes the link to the second one, a link to the Topic view which comes already expanded, but with also a reference (#44058) to the particular message so the view autoscrolls down so the referenced message comes into the screen; if that reference hadn't been provided, i.e. the link was just /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/99392063, you would be viewing the first message in that thread instead.?

So the same (expanded) Topic+Message reference link for the first example you provided would be /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/99338271 or /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/99338271#44002 if you wanted to focus on that particular message, and the corollary for the second example, the direct link to the message would be, /g/GroupManagersForum/message/44058.

As to which one gets used, it depends on what button or link you clicked while online, or how the link was provided by the sender in their message.

Cheers,
Christos

Tex,

Also don't overlook that fact that if even one keystroke in the subject line of a reply to an existing topic is changed, deleted or added (even a blank space) then the system recognizes it as a different topic and therefore it is not threaded.

OK — HTH

Paul M.
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 11:30 PM, SafeTex wrote:

And how should modified headers be controlled? I mean where the header gets modified by the user or their software and then appears like a separate topic with a similar name

The site does its best to keep that from happening.? It checks to see if there's and In-Reply-To header to connect it to a message.? If there is none, it check subject lines from up to 3 days ago in an attempt to keep things properly threaded.

It also ignores many of the common reply indicators such as Re: when trying to figure out where an emailed message should go.? If you consistently see one that isn't ignored, you can report it on the beta group and Mark may add it in.? That sometimes happens with languages other than English.

Duane
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:56 AM, Duane wrote:

It also ignores many of the common reply indicators such as Re:

Some of the discussion about this can be found at

Duane
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