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From: James Jolley on 28 Jan 2010 16:07
On 2010-01-28 21:00:40 +0000, Rod <polygonum(a)ntlworld.com> said:

> On 28/01/2010 19:12, James Jolley wrote:
> <>
>>
>> I'm also using individual.net.
>>
> So am I. And Thunderbird on Windows.
>
> I too am seeing the threads break. It appears to me that James Jolley's
> post has only one reference - to the poster resident in my killfile.
> Whereas all the subsequent posts refer at least to James Jolley's post
> plus intervening posts - up to 13 of them on one of the later posts.
>
> If James Jolley's post had had multiple references then I believe that
> Thunderbird (and probably many other newsreaders) would have been able
> to see that his post was related to the many previous posts and could
> have threaded it as most of us appear to expect.
>
> Indeed, it appears clearly to be due to Unison/1.8.1 as James Jolley's
> posts all have but a single reference.
>
> Could this be a configurable item?

I don't know but until Unison 2 is accessible there's nothing I can do.

From: James Jolley on 29 Jan 2010 06:37
On 2010-01-29 11:32:06 +0000, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> said:

> On 28/01/10 21:00, Rod wrote:
>> On 28/01/2010 19:12, James Jolley wrote:
>> <>
>>>
>>> I'm also using individual.net.
>>>
>> So am I. And Thunderbird on Windows.
>>
>> I too am seeing the threads break. It appears to me that James Jolley's
>> post has only one reference - to the poster resident in my killfile.
>> Whereas all the subsequent posts refer at least to James Jolley's post
>> plus intervening posts - up to 13 of them on one of the later posts.
>>
>> If James Jolley's post had had multiple references then I believe that
>> Thunderbird (and probably many other newsreaders) would have been able
>> to see that his post was related to the many previous posts and could
>> have threaded it as most of us appear to expect.
>>
>> Indeed, it appears clearly to be due to Unison/1.8.1 as James Jolley's
>> posts all have but a single reference.
>
> Thanks for the clear explanation. Ok, I'll get on with my life...
> Cheers.

Good it's cleared up. As I keep saying, until accessibility improves
there's nothing I can do. No other usenet reader is as usable for me
personally.

From: Chris Ridd on 29 Jan 2010 06:46
On 2010-01-29 11:28:54 +0000, chris said:

> On 28/01/10 19:53, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> On 2010-01-28 19:45:50 +0000, Ian Piper said:
>>
>>> No, I see this proliferation of threads with identical names in
>>> Unison. Couldn't figure out why but I do indeed have those people
>>> kill-filled (if that is a verb).
>>
>> I think that's the problem. Article B has a single reference to Article
>> A, which was removed via a kill rule. Unison 2 turns Article B into a
>> new thread.
>>
>> I'll report this as a bug. Threading should be able to cope with holes.
>
> Ah, OK. So, it's a unison issue not Thunderbird? Who else uses Unison?
> I see that you do, but I don't recall ever seeing your posts as new
> threads. Maybe it's because you don't reply to Rowland (the only
> killfile I have on this ng).

The latter's probably the reason. Rowland's not the only inhabitant of
my killfile.
--
Chris

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