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 For various reasons, Google Groups has had trouble [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716007 reliably syncing posts] from outside of its own interface, including blocking email posts from showing up correctly on the Google Groups newsgroup page. This inconsistency caused confusion and fragmentation of the project's attempts at conversation.
+=== Newsgroup gateways break threading ===
+The 2.x mailman we are using clobbers message-id's when gatewaying messages from mailing lists to newsgroups.  Because of the naive way in which this is done, this breaks hierarchical threading in mail clients like Thunderbird.  See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651527 for more.
+This may not be obvious to people using the gmail web client because it only orders messages chronologically and it uses a mixture of content analysis to establish conversation groupings.
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+=== Duplicate messages (from Google Groups) ===
+It's pretty common as a subscriber of our mailing lists to receive duplicate messages that seem to involve multi-path issues.  There may actually be several variations on this, but an obvious one is on dev-webapps where Jason Smith's posts from google groups (I believe that's what User-Agent: G2/1.0 is) show up twice as a mailing list subscriber.  This is not a message-id issue; the 'to' on one of the lists is "mozilla-dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org" (with mozilla-dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org) and on the other is "mozilla.dev.webapps@googlegroups.com" (with X-Original-To: dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org).
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