On 1/30/2016 6:50 PM, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> (smiling)
> Yes, of course you all are right. My newsreader (Thunderbird) also never
> showed these very old posts. But just by very lucky accident, I found
> these threads with the Google search engine. I didn't like to open them
> with my web browser, as I prefer their display in Thunderbird.
>
> That is the reason, why I "marked" those ancient threads with some sort
> of comment. Less for restarting any discussion, but more for the reason
> to bring them up again inside my Thunderbird newsreader.
>
> I am trying to find the source code, Zeger Knaepen had published within
> one of his comments within these threads, as I need now that macro.
> Easier to find (hopefully) in the better sorted view Thunderbird gives me.
>
> With other words: unless you have that macro, there is no reason to
> continue those old discussions (I agree fully). Unless, greebles
> motivate the one or other of you, then a new discussion would make sense.
>
> Since I have them back in my newsreader now, I am searching them now for
> that macro. My apologies for bringing these old (but for me highly
> interesting) discussion back. :-)
>

Responding to an old post does not magically make the old post appear in 
Thunderbird unless you also include the quoted text.


Mike

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