When I first started Admining, I was *terrified* to try to break a thread. Maybe if you tell me the URL for the thread, I can look at the indenting & have a better idea where the thread could be broken. Judy On 12/5/06, Tilman Brandl <arbit@gmx.at> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > seems I didn't express myself well. Also, I thought the collapsed view I > pasted would come across in the email, alas you all seem to receive > text-only, so maybe next time I should switch to the board instead! For the > time being though, since I've started it on-list ... > > Sofar, (1) I still feel not too sure about when I'll be safe with moving a > message out of the middle of a thread ... and (2) I know how to move a > message, that's not my problem or question. (3) does anybody know an answer > to my earlier question re. a testbed board where one can set up dummy > threads, try to repair and also destroy them ? > > Here's the full text-replica of the thread at > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EkC.2ACE/510 , with indentations > like in collapsed view, and a few explanations added afterwards: > > 0. Austrian Genoalogy : Susan nnnnnn -- 2 Feb 2000 > 1. Suhm & Reitzig : Kim Ranger -- 24 Mar 2001 > 2. Re: Suhm & Reitzig : Lawrence Suhm -- 22 Jan 2002 > 3. Re: Suhm & Reitzig : Mary Sims -- 5 Sep 2006 > 4. Ancesters : Nancy Idell -- 1 Apr 2001 > 5. Casper & Maria Augustin : Barb Peace -- 31 May 2001 > 6. Re: Austrian Geneology : Kathleen Lawson -- 28 Nov 2001 > 7. Re: Austrian Geneology : Kathleen Lawson-Schlosser -- 28 Feb 2002 > > #1. Suhm & Reitzig already was unrelated but is of course in answer to #0. > If I move it and make it a thread of it's own, it will certainly go together > with the #2. + #3. answers that follow. That'll be fine. > > #4. Ancesters - what about this one and all the rest? From the indentation > these (at least #4.) technically appear to be answers to #0. so would stay > where they are, climbing up the tree however, thus becoming a new #1. etc., > right? That same problem of before I guess is that this one again has no > relation to the original query, so should be made standalone too. > > #5. Casper & Maria Augustin again is unrelated to the original query #0. > but technically again a direct answert to #0. if I'm not mistaken. I would > follow that same procedure here and make it a seperate thread - unless other > messages are attached, which again - judging from missing indentation - is > NOT the case. > > #6. and #7. both are the only legitimate answers to the original query, > not indented and therefore a direct reply each, and should stay with it. > Right? > > My main question is: Is judging a message's position in a thread from > indentations in collapsed view the one and only correct method? There's > nothig else that would give me a clue, right? > > Any tips would be accepted most gratefully. > > Thanks > Tilman > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ~PRIMARY NAMES: ANTHONY, BAKER, FLOWERS, LANE, SEPTER~ Washington Co PA free Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ Send mail to washington.co.pa.webmaster"AT"gmail.com Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa Steve Irwin Warriors please sign map at: http://www.frappr.com/steveirwinwarriors