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Re: Broken mailers which mess up threading
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 06:50:07 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Christopher Lindsey writes:
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.

Except cases where you do the "(was: ...)" thing, right?

--Todd



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  Re: Broken mailers which mess up threading
 
(...) It sounds like if the References: header is used to trace threads, then the Subject: header should begin with "Re: ". I suppose the original intent was that new threads would be started if the Subject: was changed (but that's pure conjecture (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Broken mailers which mess up threading
 
(...) that's one place where we have a choice to make... does re-subjecting make a new thread, or is it still a child of the current thread? most of the time, by the time someone re-subjected a post, it's 3-4 posts AFTER the subject has been (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: Broken mailers which mess up threading
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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