(urth) Yes it is gmail's fault! (was: Re: slowdown reminder)

Jane Delawney jane_delawney at sky.com
Mon Aug 9 17:25:03 PDT 2010


Yes, the stuff about mailservers is all true - hadn't previously grokked 
it as a common factor, but *Sky Mail has also been a bastardized version 
of gmail* for about the last 3 years. So it's THEIR fault all along.

jd

On 09/08/10 19:22, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Fred Kiesche wrote:
>
>    
>> Is there some reason that the same (as far as I can tell) message threads
>> are getting split again and again--same subject line, but gmail splits
>>      
> them.
>
> It is because some people's posts (Lee Berman), even when responding to an
> existing thread, are sent to the List as if they were new threads with a new
> subject line. That's why Lee's posts don't have the usual "Re:" at the
> beginning of the subject line. I don't know why he does that. Maybe he has
> the same problem that Jane Delawney has, that her mail server will not send
> her a copy of her own posts unless she starts a new thread. I have had the
> same problem she has since my mail server, though my email address does not
> reflect it, became a bastardized form of gmail two years ago. I get around
> the problem by just copying a copy of of my response post to the folder in
> which I keep the other List posts, in the place where it would be if things
> worked right.
>
> -Roy
>
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