Paul Boddie <pa**@boddie.org.ukwrote:
On 31 Okt, 10:38, Rafe <rafesa...@gmail.comwrote:
>I tried to post some follow-ups to some issues I posted in the hopes
of helping others, but I only get "reply to author" and "forward", but
no "reply" option (using GoogleGroups). Is there some kind of time
limit to reply?
Probably not for any of the newsgroups or mailing lists accessed via
Google Groups. The behaviour you're seeing could be temporary - Google
Groups isn't always particularly reliable - or it might be the case
that the sender is one of those people who has requested that their
messages not be archived, perhaps interpreted by Google Groups in the
way you describe, but I'm just speculating at this point.
No, I believe Google Groups does impose a limit on replying. Usenet
doesn't, but if the original message is so old that it has expired from
most news servers then there's no benefit in replying over just posting a
new message that says 'There was a thread x years ago where <someonein
message <insert message id or link to google's archive heresaid ...'
Then you'd better give plenty of context because nobody is going to
remember the original message anyway.
If you use the same subject line as the original then (unless google groups
changed when I wasn't looking) Google will thread it together with the
original messages: Google doesn't understand real threads. Real newsreaders
won't thread it, but since they won't have the original anyway you haven't
lost anything.
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Duncan Booth
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