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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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