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Dude, I'm using Yahoo's email client.
I just hit 'reply' & it goes from there...
If there's a problem there, please direct your inquiries to Yahoo...
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On Thu, 4/21/16, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

 Subject: [TML] Please stop breaking threads!
 To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Thursday, April 21, 2016, 3:25 PM

 I've been ill the past almost-a-week,
 and sat down today to catch up on
 the TML. When I looked at the 74 new messages pending, I saw
 no less
 than *ten* threads with the subject line "Off-topic but
 incredible" -
 and nine of them were replies to the tenth, and all of them
 started by
 Phil Pugliese. Most were single messages; one or two had
 replies by
 others.

 When one keeps years of TML on hand, and subject lines recur
 (as they
 do) for threads that actually have nothing to do with each
 other, the
 only sensible way of keeping threads ... threaded ... is to
 rely on the
 References header. Mr Pugliese's mail authoring program
 apparently does
 not use or honor the References header, and as a result, he
 breaks EVERY
 SINGLE THREAD he participates in - and does so again each
 time he posts
 to a thread. This is not a function of the "false
 addressing" that
 SimpleLists does for certain domains; Les Bates and Loren
 Wiseman have
 also had their addresses "falsified" to "xxxxxx@simplelists.com",
 but
 they do not break threads as Mr Pugliese does.

 I can cite several other occasions in which Mr Pugliese's
 replies have
 *shattered* topic threads, including, for example, the
 thread titled
 "Relic Tech and Scarcity-driven Imperium", in which Mr
 Pugliese created
 not less than twenty-eight "broken branches" over a four-day
 period
 ending 31 March.

 This makes it difficult to follow threads, and moreso when
 trying to
 catch up after a lapse.

 Others have been guilty of this offense in the past; most of
 them, when
 it has been brought to their attention, have made
 adjustments, and no
 longer appear to be breaking threads. Mr Pugliese, however,
 has
 persisted. I am therefore publicly calling on Mr Pugliese to
 PLEASE
 IMMEDIATELY change his email program to one that does not
 maliciously
 vandalize every single thread he wishes to participate in.

 I am willing to offer advice and assistance in private mail
 if Mr
 Pugliese is willing to provide system particulars concerning
 the
 environment he is working in; while I have no direct
 knowledge of Linux
 or Macintosh programs (if such is his environment), I can
 certainly get
 advice from people I trust, and pass it on, and, with
 ListMom's
 assistance, I may also be able to actually test Windows and
 Linux
 solutions.

 --
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 Freelance Traveller
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