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Re: Broken mailers which mess up threading
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:26:27 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> This broken thread garbage has got to stop. Example:
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> Another solution might be to reject messages whose subjects begin with
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> /^[Rr][Ee]:/
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> 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.
I'd say that's perfectly in line with with RFC 850, Section 2.2.6.
It clearly says that a References: headers is "required for all
follow-up articles" and that the first four characters of the
Subject: header should be changed to "Re: " if they aren't set
already. Any other behavior just doesn't follow the RFC, so tough
noogies to those who aren't compliant. :)
Chris
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| (...) the problem is, we're dealing with mailers that are just not RFC compliant. Which is why they don't have the references: header in the first place... and we're trying to cludge something around their shortcomings, just so the pretty threading (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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