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when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
What to do?
You know you have the OP killfiled. Read it or not? |
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when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
"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 |
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when yoiu see a post that starts "Re"
"shazzbat" wrote in message ... "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. |
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Depends, really, just how irritating you find the OP. If you don't kill many, I guess the answer is, pretty irritating!
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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? 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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?
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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? 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. |
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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. -- http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk From the Wirral Peninsular. Coach painting tips and techniques + Land Rover colour codes "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble". Henry Royce |
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Baz wrote: wrote in : 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. I think there must be hundreds of reasons for this. When I first used NG my client was Outlook Express and it could never make up its mind, ie. or not to , so fickle and it was most likely my fault with the settings, but I could not solve the problem so I bought Agent, don't know which version but it solved the problem to a certain level. Not perfect though, and again most likely my fault. there was a setting 'start new thread always' something similar, and that may be the cause. Going a few years with it, I found lots of annoying little things that made me change to XNews, free, simple to use and have never seen a (Re after a follow up. The OP said, What to do? You know you have the OP killfiled. Read it or not? If that poster is killfiltered(plonked) then that poster would be invisible, and would not be readable to the person who has filtered. In other words the bugger is not plonked if you can read their posts. Best wishes to all (plonked or not) Baz I don't use IE but I do know it has one or two flaws that may for all I know cause the Re problem. I use a news client called Messenger Pro which is a paid for app on a minority platform but I've not noticed anything untoward regards its functionality, all my news and email postings contain the Re reference when they *have* been replied to. Stephen. -- http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk From the Wirral Peninsular. Coach painting tips and techniques + Land Rover colour codes "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble". Henry Royce |
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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. |
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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 |
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