FS> If you cross-post from another group [...]
FS> it would be nice if you at least quoted *something*.

<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBo...d/FGA/read-the-
references-header.html>

Moreover, quoting is wholly unnecessary when the question being
answered is in the subject line.

FS> Also your Subject: line does not have the standard
FS> "Re: ", which adds to the problem, because it
FS> makes your article look like an OP, [...]

False.  It does not add to any problem, because there isn't actually a
problem with the message to add to.  The problem is that you don't
know how to recognize the first post in a thread.  You think that it's
signified by the subject line.  It is not.  It is signified by a
"References:" header.  Your reading the wrong thing is a problem that
you have made for yourself, not something caused by any actual message
content.  Subject lines have zero relevance to threading.

I also suggest that you familiarize yourself with USEFOR's best
practice document.  "Re:" is a convention that people were deprecating
two years ago.  As the architecture and protocols document says, that
string "serves no protocol function".

FS> Finally, Google Groups is breaking the Newsgroups:
FS> line by having an invalid space after the comma.

False.  RFC 1036 is silent on the matter, having no formal syntax; and
the formal syntax given in the USEFOR article format document, in
section 3.1.4, allows folding whitespace on both sides of a comma.

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