Re: index of a subgroup and the index of any one of its conjugates (equality ?)

In article <15903288.1221497747271.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
steenrod <spingroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for following up on this (and other) thread(s).

I appreciate your help.

Again:

You are reading the newsgroup through the Math Forum; that means that
a simple scrolling with the mouse gives you access to previous posts,
giving you context.

I, and many others, do not. Usenet was created as a text-based system,
not one with graphical interfaces. I do NOT have easy access to
previous posts. I use trn, which is a threaded newsreader; I can
access previous posts, but only if they are fresh in the server memory
(if not, then I need to wait a substantial amount of time while the
newsreader goes to retrieve the message before displaying it), and
when I do so I can only look at one message at a time, and then I
"lose" sight of the current message. My options are to guess, look up
past messages and lose the current one to try to figure out what you
might be referring to, or fire up a web browser so I can go look in
Google or Math Forum to provide context while I keep my screen tied up
with the current message.

That is why it is common courtesy and practice to QUOTE relevant parts
of previous messages to provide context. Even the Math Forum
acknowledges this by providing you with a button that allows you to
quote the message you are replying to, so that you can later trim it
down and give your response some context. Please try to get into the
habit of quoting the message you are replying to and trimming it.

The following links give you some pointers and some explanations of
how and why to do so.

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#quote

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html


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