when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


I wish it was that simple. Quite often I see "Re", and all it means is that
the OP just didn't show up on my screen, for reasons known only to my news
server.

Steve

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


I wish it was that simple. Quite often I see "Re", and all it means is
that the OP just didn't show up on my screen, for reasons known only to my
news server.
Steve

My newserver shows everything that I allow. I there is a re it's a reply to
someone I have killfiled.
I rarely killfile, have to be nasty bad for that.

Quick scan through authors of entire thread. If it's taken on a life of its own, read it, if there's lots of OP posts studded through it, ignore it.

Depends, really, just how irritating you find the OP. If you don't kill many, I guess the answer is, pretty irritating!

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?

Please treat the message as any other message on this or any other
forum.
'Re' is appended to all replies to any message by certain news reader
software.
My own gives me a choice of a number of ways to show its a reply
rather than starting a new topic.

Derek
www.lincolnfuchsiasociety.info

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
gently dipped his quill in the
best Quink that money could buy:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


I get quite a few Re's and I have not killfiled anyone.

I think it is the News server not sending the while thread.

Mike P the 1st

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


The Re also appears if the thread was started in another NG and
someone has added the URG address to crosspost it.
There might be a genuine reason for that but often its a way of
spreading spam or offensive content.

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:43:09 +0000, Derek
wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?

Please treat the message as any other message on this or any other
forum.
'Re' is appended to all replies to any message by certain news reader
software.
My own gives me a choice of a number of ways to show its a reply
rather than starting a new topic.

Derek
www.lincolnfuchsiasociety.info

I use Agent. Every message in a thread starts with
It seems logical to me.


Pam in Bristol

The "re" is just indicating that it's not the first post in the thread.
But I think what Tina is asking is:

There is a thread started by someone she has killfiled. She doesn't want to read that person's posts, or any parts of his/her posts that have been quoted by people who have responded. On the other hand, the later posts in the thread could well be interesting. So does she read the post, and risk seeing obnoxious posts from the person she has killfilled? Or does she skip it, and miss out on what could have been an interesting post?

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

In message
Fuschia wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


The Re also appears if the thread was started in another NG and
someone has added the URG address to crosspost it.
There might be a genuine reason for that but often its a way of
spreading spam or offensive content.

I think the Re, refers to a reference to the original message
posted, when you reply to a previous message it is always then
shown as a Re.

Stephen.


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when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

You can't read the post of the OP if you have kfed them, but depending on newsreader, you can read the posts of people who haven't got them kfed and have replied to them, and if they have quoted the OP in their replies, you will be able to see the bits of the OP's post which have been quoted.

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?

Fix your filters?

My filters are fine. If others would do that

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

wrote in message
...
In message
Fuschia wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


The Re also appears if the thread was started in another NG and
someone has added the URG address to crosspost it.
There might be a genuine reason for that but often its a way of
spreading spam or offensive content.

I think the Re, refers to a reference to the original message
posted, when you reply to a previous message it is always then
shown as a Re.


Yes, I know that, what I am talking about is a post that starts "RE" which
is a different thing entirely.

when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
 

In message , Christina Websell
writes

wrote in message
...
In message
Fuschia wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:21:18 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled.
Read it or not?


The Re also appears if the thread was started in another NG and
someone has added the URG address to crosspost it.
There might be a genuine reason for that but often its a way of
spreading spam or offensive content.

I think the Re, refers to a reference to the original message
posted, when you reply to a previous message it is always then
shown as a Re.


Yes, I know that, what I am talking about is a post that starts "RE" which
is a different thing entirely.


Your losing me here Christina :-)

As Steve says a posts tarts with 're' because it is a reply, as opposed
to the original message in a thread.

I think what you are really talking about is why you see the thread
title (when a thread is collapsed) starting with 'Re'.

I suspect this is in part down to the newsreader software. In my
software (Turnpike). I see 'Re' in the collapsed thread title if the
original message is not on my machine for some reason - either it has
expired and been deleted from my machine, or the thread has been
crossposted over from another group I don't subscribe to at some point.

If it is a thread that starts with a poster who I have killfiled, then
the thread is displayed with a lighter weight of typeface. so it gives
me an indication as to whether I want to bother reading it or not. If i
expand the thread I can still see that there is a post from 'X'. It's
quite likely other software does things differently.

As to your original question? Well do what you want :-)

I sometimes read a thread started by a killfiled person if the title
sounds interesting enough , or by accident sometimes. I may even
occasionally request a post that is killed if it seems
interesting/sensible or whatever enough .

Your choice :-)
--
Chris French