Matt Dralle
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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject: Forum Search Problem & RSS Feed Question |
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At 01:11 PM 7/2/2009 Thursday, you wrote:
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> Don't think I did. This is a reply to the original
> from my trash bin just as it came to me about 8:00 this
> morning
Hmmm, maybe this forum works differently than I am used to. In the forums I am familiar with, when you start a thread, your post is the first in the thread. When I look at this thread on the matronics website,
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p 51177#251177
my initial post is nowhere to be found, and your post is the first one in the thread, quoting my post. The thread with my post as the thread starter is now an orphan:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?t=59831
Perhaps this is just a weirdness of matronics, I don't know.
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Highest Regards,
Noah Forden
RV-7A
Rhode Island
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The "weirdness" stems from the fact that the Matronics Lists are both an Email Distribution List and a web-based Forum interface. Messages are automatically cross-posted between the two mediums and most of the time it works as advertised. Every once in a while, though, the utility that takes the incoming email and cross posts it to the forums can't figure out if the message thread already exists on the forums and this is when you end up with what appear to be duplicate threads on the forums. I think that the utility trys to use the email MessageID: header to do the threading. Most email programs will try to keep the MessageID: intact if a person "replies" to a message. But sometimes they don't. I think this might be when the threading issues occur.
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