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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 12:32:03 GMT
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:26:27AM +0000, Christopher Lindsey wrote:
> 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. :)
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 (which is a Very Good Thing (tm)) would still work...
--
Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
<set:8235_1>: Front End Loader / FL8 Front Loader (LEGO/TECHNIC/Tech Play/Starter), '95, 165 pcs, 1 figs
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| (...) I really don't think it's worth the time to work around it -- only to weed out non-compliant mailers in a consistent and reliable way. If someone is using a broken newsreader or mailer that doesn't put in the right headers, tough cookies for (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) 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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