Half your order free!

[edswoods.1]

Or at least that's the way it should be, since 3 of the 6 blades I've bought from them have broken on the welds. I've heard they will replace them free, but you pay the shipping.

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[Olebiker]

I must be missing something. Are you responding to another post? What blades are you referring to?

Dick Durbin

[alexy]

I must be missing something. Are you responding to another post? What post that did not quote any contextual information are you referring to? Probably a post by a google groups user--they frequently do that.

[Olebiker]

Sorry, you must be using a primative newsreader that doesn't put posts in context? Use Google so you can see the context. :-)

Dick "computer illiterate" Durbin

[Dave Hinz]

That's an awfully arrogant way of responding to someone who is trying to help someone communicate effectively. A post with no context is nearly useless in _any_ newsreader.

[Olebiker]

The problem with electronic communication is that, even with the use of emoticons, a joking retort is often taken as being smart assed. I'm sorry if my response was taken that way.

I am, though, somewhat serious about newsreaders since many (most?) don't display threads that put a response in context. If you view this discussion in Google as a tree you can see the progression of comments and responses.

[alexy]

1) I saw the emoticon and took no offense, and assumed you took no offense at my ribbing. In fact, I was tempted to reply with a compliment on your quoting, but thought I would let it die. Didn't happen. 2) I think you are wrong about most newsreaders. All that I am aware of display the tree. In Agent, Thunderbird, Netscape, and I think OE, that is a three subwindow view showing thread titles, the tree of subject lines, authors and times for the current thread, and the text of the current message. But that takes screen space, just as it does in gg, so I tend to look at a single window view. Moving through unread messages, I move seamlessly from thread to thread until I come to a reply in which the context is not given, at which point I need to go to the three subwindow view or open up the single window tree view. And I don't bother when the context is clear from the reply, although often it leaves some doubt. No big deal, but far less convenient than just reading the messages with quoted context. BTW, even with DSL, I find the offline reader far faster (and therefore less aggravating) than using a browser that has to download each message as I read it. 3) From your last couple of posts, it appears that gg does have quoting capability, which is news to me. Hopefully this gives you some feeling about why some (most?) of us appreciate your using that feature.

[Olebiker]

Actually GG doesn't have quoting capability. I had to do that manually. I'll do that in the future to avoid confusion.

Thanks, Dick

[Charlie Self]

Actually, GG DOES have quoting capability. Go up to the "options" entry, click that and check reply. It quotes the entire piece. Select from there.

[Olebiker]

Well, I'll be.... Thanks, Charlie.

[John McCoy]

"Charlie Self" wrote in news:1133379088.915202.93420 @g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Cool - that's worth knowing.

I wonder if we'll ever find out what edswoods1 was on about.

John

[fredfighter]

Or you can click the "Reply" link a tthe bottom of the article and, instead of typign your reply into the box that opens, click on "Preview" and then "Edit".

[Greg O]

Look for " Heads up on Timberwolf blade sale" thread Greg

[Leon]

Nope that was my post. Timberwolf is offering buy 3 get one free. Not half your order free.

[W Canaday]

Dick, hit "Reply To" instead of starting a new message and threading works just fine. I have over 100,000 headers just from this newsgroup alone and threading has never been broken yet.

According to your message header, you weren't replying to an existing message at all, you were starting a new one.

Wanna see? Here is the complete message you sent us that started this thread. The top part is known as the header and is not normally displayed ... but always exists for every Usenet message ever sent.

Complaints-To: [e-mail] Date: 30 Nov 2005 05:01:49 -0800 From: " [e-mail]" Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.128.120.163; posting-account=tJrq4g0AAADGH9_7cPS_YB6UxgHrXhhc Lines: 5 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:01:54 +0000 (UTC) NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.128.120.163 Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Organization:

Path: sn-us!sn-xit-11!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-13!supernews.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Subject: Half your order free! User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-Complaints-To: [e-mail] X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-Trace: posting.google.com

1133355714 3248 127.0.0.1 (30 Nov 2005 13:01:54 GMT) Xref: sn-us rec.woodworking:1210788 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Or at least that's the way it should be, since 3 of the 6 blades I've bought from them have broken on the welds. I've heard they will replace them free, but you pay the shipping.

It SHOULD have had a line that read "In-Reply-To" ... but didn't because it wasn't actually a reply.

Here's Gregs response to you ... note his "References" line? It matches your "Message-ID".

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:15:06 -0600 From: "Greg O" Lines: 13 Message-ID: Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Organization: Posted via Supernews,

sn-us!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail References: Subject: Re: Half your order free! X-Complaints-To: [e-mail] X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-Priority: 3 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: sn-us rec.woodworking:1210995 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain

Look for " Heads up on Timberwolf blade sale" thread Greg

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Gregs' posting was a reply, yours was a clean start.

:P

Bill

[CW]

The most commonly used one, Outlook, does. So has the other two that I have tried.

[Mark & Juanita]

You know, *them*. You know how *they* are, right?

Hey, you're not one of *them*, are you? :-)

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[Mark & Juanita]

I use Agent, it does put messages in thread order. But, I also don't like wading through a gazillion headers that have already been read to find one that is unread, so it only shows unread posts. If the original post was read days ago, not having any context makes messages like that from the OP completely useless. Also, in some cases, an original posting may not make it to one's news server before responses. In those cases also, the contextless posting is useless because the originating posting is not viewable.

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[Greg O]

Yes, but the "OP" of this thread was trying to post a response to your thread, but failed! Greg