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Re: Lost Instructions
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:42:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > The e-mail gateway handles References (as well as In-Reply-To) headers both
> > directions, so it must be a broken emailer. There are couple people using
> > a broken version of Eudora which always seems to chop the last message ID and
> > cause their replies to go as a sibling rather than a child of the article to
> > which they're replying. I wish there were a good way to detect broken or
> > missing References and reject such messages. :-/
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> Hmm. Looking for the presence of something like
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> -----Original Message-----
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> (added by some many odd mailers) might get part of the way there in detecting
> a reply, but then that would also get false positives where someone was
> forwarding something external.
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> But I wonder about simply checking the Subject header for
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> m/^[Rr][Ee}:\s*/
Oops -- doy -- that should be a square closing bracket --
m/^[Rr][Ee]:\s*/
--Todd
> If the Subject header matches that regex and the References header is empty,
> it should be an excellent bet that the client software which produced the
> message is badly broken.
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> --Todd
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