[OT] quoting text

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Steven
Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:16:46 -0400, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:51:56 -0400, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> If I want to read the whole message you're replying to, I can open up
>>>> the mesasge you're replying to in my newsreader.
>>>
>>>  Yes, but there are some issues there:
>>>  1. the newsgroup/newsreader sometimes doesn't correctly put your message
>>> as a reply to the original.
>>
>> Is it really happening with _my_ messages?  (When a thread becomes broken
>> up, how often compared to not is it due to user error?)
>
> I'm not sure.  I see regulars all the time "start" new threads even though
> they are replying to others.  I'm not sure where the problem lies.

It's most likely the web interface.  It does that a lot.

I've noticed the mailing list does it too, sometimes.  But it's
usually much better-behaved.