Why all the re: posts.

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Why is it that recently, the majority of initial posts showing on this NG
are "Re:" threads with no original thread appearing?
My history (OE6) goes back to 1 Feb., and no way are the original queries
posted prior to that date.
And no, not many are cross-posted ones.
 
"johnf" said in news:[email protected]:
Why is it that recently, the majority of initial posts showing on
this NG are "Re:" threads with no original thread appearing?
My history (OE6) goes back to 1 Feb., and no way are the original
queries posted prior to that date.
And no, not many are cross-posted ones.
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Long exposure to spammers using the same trick in the Subject line of
e-mails, I guess.
 
Because people are responding to posts older than 2-1-04 (it could be) or........ your newsserver could be dropping posts or.......... you might have it set to delete headers or...........you might have hide read messages ticked or.........

I have a rule set to dlete messages older than 5 days. In this group for there are 2,572 meaages over the last 5 days and I see no majority of Re: as initial posts at all.

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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________

| Why is it that recently, the majority of initial posts showing on this NG
| are "Re:" threads with no original thread appearing?
| My history (OE6) goes back to 1 Feb., and no way are the original queries
| posted prior to that date.
| And no, not many are cross-posted ones.
|
| --
| johnf
|
|
 
No, I have nothing blocked, no hide read messages and no rules set.
Of the most recent 30 posts, 22 of them are just "Re:"
A mystery.

A typical example is one received 10 minutes ago:
Subject: Re: Right click (Tools window)

In the body it says in part (and means he's replying to an original post,
posted on the date below)
<snipped>
Hi Josh,
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:41:08 -0800, "Josh" wrote:
 
Well something is funky because the original post was @ 12:41 PM (USA Central Standard) on 3-12-04:

"When I right click within an Internet explorer window to copy or paste an item, I have a link to a web page that I'm not sure how to get rid off. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Josh"

Open your options panel and take a look, also open View | Current view | see what is checked. There are about 500 posts between then and now.

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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________

| No, I have nothing blocked, no hide read messages and no rules set.
| Of the most recent 30 posts, 22 of them are just "Re:"
| A mystery.
|
| A typical example is one received 10 minutes ago:
| Subject: Re: Right click (Tools window)
|
| In the body it says in part (and means he's replying to an original post,
| posted on the date below)
| <snipped>
| Hi Josh,
| On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:41:08 -0800, "Josh" wrote:
|
| --
| johnf
|
| > Because people are responding to posts older than 2-1-04 (it could be)
| > or........ your newsserver could be dropping posts or.......... you
| > might have it set to delete headers or...........you might have hide
| > read messages ticked or.........
| >
| > I have a rule set to dlete messages older than 5 days. In this group
| > for there are 2,572 meaages over the last 5 days and I see no majority
| > of Re: as initial posts at all.
| >
| > --
| > Just my 2¢ worth
| > Jeff
| > __________in response to__________
| >
| > | >> Why is it that recently, the majority of initial posts showing on this
| >> NG
| >> are "Re:" threads with no original thread appearing?
| >> My history (OE6) goes back to 1 Feb., and no way are the original
| >> queries
| >> posted prior to that date.
| >> And no, not many are cross-posted ones.
| >>
| >> --
| >> johnf
|
|
 
Hi,
Must be a setting at your end of the line.
I went for 16,000 message headers ( in 1,000 increments) and got (a coarse
estimate of) less than 1% of those "Re:"...nothing else.
Mikey
 
Another thought, do you have it set up to group messages by conversation? That is also in current view.
 
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