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Re: Lost Instructions
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:42:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:

But I wonder about simply checking the Subject header for

  m/^[Rr][Ee}:\s*/

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.

but what do you do if it is broken?  reject it?  that's not so friendly -
basicly you're saying that you're not allowing people to use eudora with the
mail interface... :/

dunno what you can do though - no really good way of know what the referece is
without the headers...

Dan



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  Re: Lost Instructions
 
(...) Yes! (...) How friendly is it for someone to post using a broken client which can't even get the headers correct? There are hundreds of non-broken clients to use. (...) This wouldn't catch the Eudora bug -- which omits the last message-ID in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Hmm. Looking for the presence of something like -----Original Message----- (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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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