All of the messages in Nabble are suddenly going into the "AndrOpen Office" thread!

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#1

Hello,
     Well, if this appears as a separate subject (in the Users archive on Nabble), then the problem was fixed. It seems as if all of the posts (even different subjects and conversations) are going into the "What do you think of AndrOpen Office?" thread on Nabble. A conversation about LibreOffice Base and MySQL (with a different subject) went into the AndrOpen Office thread on Nabble. Is this able to be fixed?

Regards,
xmlhttprequest.open@gmail.com

#2

null wrote:

Hello,
     Well, if this appears as a separate subject (in the Users archive
on Nabble), then the problem was fixed. It seems as if all of the posts
(even different subjects and conversations) are going into the "What do
you think of AndrOpen Office?" thread on Nabble. A conversation about
LibreOffice Base and MySQL (with a different subject) went into the
AndrOpen Office thread on Nabble. Is this able to be fixed?

I don't know if it's the case here, but people do sometimes reply to an existing email to the list and just change the subject line (presumably to save looking up the address for the list). That isn't enough to make it a different thread - there are separate headers in the email which link messages into threads - so the new message shows up as part of the original thread.

Another disadvantage of doing this is that some other people use mail clients or news readers which they can set to automatically ignore any further messages in threads they're not interested in or can't help with. So those people wouldn't see the messages asking about a different problem in an existing thread, when they might otherwise have been able to help with that new problem.

So it can be in the asker's best interest to create a new thread rather than replying in an existing one. To do that, they need to create a completely new email and send it to the list address (users AT global.libreoffice.org in this case).

Mark.

#3

You said / Você disse:

I don't know if it's the case here, but people do sometimes reply to an
existing email to the list and just change the subject line (presumably
to save looking up the address for the list). That isn't enough to make
it a different thread - there are separate headers in the email which
link messages into threads - so the new message shows up as part of the
original thread. Mark.

I found this out the hard way. Went to nabble to do some searching, and
noticed that my email discussion, with which I'd done exactly as you
mentioned, was included in the previous subject discussion. *Sigh*

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Another way is to use "Forward" and then copy&paste back to the list.

When you notice a thread has been hijacked it's quite a neat way of
breaking the new subject out into a new thread of it's own.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Well said, Mark. One more comment inserted below.

I don't know if it's the case here, but people do sometimes reply to an
existing email to the list and just change the subject line (presumably
to save looking up the address for the list). That isn't enough to make
it a different thread - there are separate headers in the email

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