Re: [Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

[Heinrich Müller]

Am Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:29:56 +0000 schrieb Duncan:

> Heinrich Müller posted on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:52:09 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>> Am Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:38:13 -0700 schrieb Graham Lawrence:
>> 
>>> My thanks to Jim Henderson, Duncan and Steven D'Aprano for their
>>> responses.  The behavior was as described in Steven D'Aprano's links
>>> re Astraweb, including fragmented trees.  I regret I do not remember
>>> the particular groups involved with the exact symptom I described, but
>>> any of the groups beginning msn.forum.science produce no response from
>>> Pan at all except to border the entire top right pane with
>>> ...................... which I assume means Pan cannot access their
>>> headers.
>> 
>> Did you notice that there's no References header in this reply?
>> Odd...
> 
> It appears to be from a Google webmail account.  Doesn't particularly
> surprise me.  After all, they can't seem to reliably honor a user
> attempting to permanently turn off HTML for a particular to-address, why
> would they be expected to be much better at reliably getting the
> references headers correct?  (Note that I didn't state anything about
> the possibility of the problem being a PEBKAC.  I've never used it, so
> can only go on what I frequently see happening to users who have stated
> they've turned it off repeatedly for some list.)

True, true.
Google is fucked up.