[OT] Broken newsgroup threads in Thunderbird 3?

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 12/05/2009 08:21 PM, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> Is anybody else here experiencing problems with Thunderbird 3 RC? On my
> laptop many post that are clearly replies to an existing thread appear
> as new top-level posts.
>
> When I first started using Thunderbird 3 beta this happened in my IMAP
> folder as well, but I was able to fix that by setting
> mail.strict_threading to false in the config editor. Unfortunately, I
> can't seem to find a similar setting for controlling threading behavior
> for the news reader.
>
> Is this a bug in Thunderbird 3 beta/RC, or are those posts simply
> broken, because of a broken web interface or something like that? Or is
> there a problem with the news server?
>
> L.

I'm on 3 beta and I haven't noticed an unusual amount top level REs.

But yeah, there's something wonky about the news server