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From: "Carol Sterling" <>
Subject: Re: [BD-ADM] Help with post..
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:55:17 -0500
References: <13c.c036577.29da4e18@aol.com>


Joan,
Yup, that's exactly it!

Thanks,
Carol
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Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [BD-ADM] Help with post..


> In a message dated 4/1/02 6:13:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > Thanks Joan!! I doubled check and away it went.
> >
> > Now, the 'problem' with the other board is this... one thread starts
out,
> > then 1/2 way through the thread all of sudden the subject line is
changed
> > along with the posts.
> > In other words, there's an ancestor name (Joe Shmoe, Native Indian),
thread
> > continues & on topic of Joe Shmoe Native American. In mid stream jumps
to
> > Shmoe genealogy & thread has nothing to do with Joe Shmoe Native
Indian.
> > Is it possible to take the posts of 'Shmoe gnealogy' and place them in
> thier
> > own thread? In a nut shell the subject line was changed during replies
&
> > also the conversation in the posts changed all falling under the thread
of
> > 'Joe Shmoe, Native American'.
> > Did I confuse the heck out of you or did you actually follow this?
> >
> Carol-
>
> I think I'm understanding what happened. Yes, you can break up a thread
but
> you can't put it back together again, so use caution--it's just like
humpty
> dumpty.
>
> Use the move message feature to move the first post you want to start off
the
> new thread browsing to the SAME board the message is currently posted on
and
> "moving" it there--everything else that is attached to it (that follows it
in
> the thread) will move along with it and it will all form its own new
thread.
> Keep in mind that if a post in the thread was posted (attached) to an
earlier
> message in the thread -- it won't be moved -- only those posts attached to
> the message you are moving and those behind it in the thread.
>
> Joan
>
>
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