The date and time was Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:01:34 PM, and on a
whim, Bill in Co. pounded out on the keyboard:

Why are there multiple separate posts on this with just some slight
variations in the subject line? One subject line for it is quite enough.


There is only one thread I see, and the same subject for all.

I have seen reported issues of Google Groupers who reply in a thread,
and when another newsreader replies to a GG'er, Google folds References
headers and it adds tab characters to them. AFAIK, that should never
happen -- it's a bug with Google.

Then when a "good newsreader" unfolds the headers in a reply, it leaves
extra whitespace in the places where the tabs were. Some people have
called this a bug, but IMO, it's not -- it's just GIGO, with the garbage
initiated at GG.

Then when Google parses the header in a further reply, it chokes on the
whitespace characters (which shouldn't be there) in the unfolded header
and creates an even more invalid header, in which most of the
message-ids are gone and the one that remains has no angled
brackets.

It's only at that last stage that the newsreader can no longer thread
the messages properly.

So this problem only happens when there are more than one post in the
thread already, then a Google Grouper replies, then a newsreader user
replies to the GGer, then the GGer replies back.

Whew!

Terry R.
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