[OT] Broken newsgroup threads in Thunderbird 3?

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 12/05/2009 09:28 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> 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

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