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Re: Lost Instructions
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:42:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> But I wonder about simply checking the Subject header for
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> m/^[Rr][Ee}:\s*/
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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