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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:24:39AM +0000, Tood Lehman wrote:
> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9)
>
> and this:
>
> http://news.lugnet.com/news/raw.cgi?lugnet.general:20718
>
> with the same version number that BenW is using. In all cases of messages
> posted by this mailer to .general (a few dozen), threading was broken.
>
> Another solution might be to reject messages whose subjects begin with
>
> /^[Rr][Ee]:/
>
> and have no 'References:' headers -- and not check the 'X-Mailer' header.
> Unfortunately, while that would probably work, it wouldn't be long before
> someone figured out that they could just delete the 'Re:' part to sneak
> around it -- which would be even worse than the bug all by itself.
how about, instead of rejecting such messages, make a "soft" threading
feature... and activate it only for mailers you know are broken (lke that
Internet Mail Service, Eudora, etc)... Just write a little proggie that
will attempt to guess what message this is a reply to. Based on subject,
newsgroups, date/time and quoting... yes, it'll be fuzzy (not meaning to
sound republican *gd&r*), but that's why it'll be "soft". Mark it in the
thread tree with a lighter line, or dashed, or something...
just some thoughts... :)
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