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   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   XPost: nyc.transit   
      
   On Nov 18, 4:36 pm, "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   > Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Nov 18, 2:27 pm, "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   > >>Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   > >>>On Nov 17, 10:57 pm, "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   > >>>>Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   > >>>>>C Street opened today, but for weekends only. At the moment you could   
   > >>>>>make the unusual trip from "33" St to Newark, because WTC and Hoboken   
   > >>>>>are still out.   
   > >>>>Uh, how about changing the Subject back to that of the root article?   
   > >>>"Subjects" don't show up in my message window.   
   > >>Subject is a header, not part of the message body. Are Google Groups users   
   > >>prevented from changing Subject? If so, that's another reason to never use   
   > >>Google Groups and subscribe to a genuine News server.   
   > >Of course we can easily change the header.   
   >   
   > I'm very please to hear that there is a particular way in which Google Groups   
   > does not suck.   
   >   
   > >But the header only appears well outside the visual field that is engaged   
   > >when reading a message, so one does not notice it, nor observe when it   
   > >has been changed.   
   >   
   > Is this Google Group's design or is it the user's fault? Sounds like   
   > the latter.   
   >   
   > >One has one's "tree view" organized "by reply," so that conversations   
   > >can be followed (rather than "by date," in which case all messages are   
   > >presented in the order they were posted), and as one scrolls through   
   > >the "tree," one notices the highlighted = unread messages, and the   
   > >changing headers serve no purpose other than distracting from finding   
   > >the unread messages.   
   >   
   > It's nice to know that authors who post through Google Groups have no   
   > concept that they are writing articles for others to read and that agreement   
   > between Subject and the main topic of the article is for other people   
   > to think about, not them.   
      
   You are unfamiliar with the concept of "conversational drift"?   
      
   Why did you fail to change the header to "Bitching about headers"?   
      
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