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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 19:15:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger writes:
> 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. :)
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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 (which is a Very Good Thing (tm)) would still work...
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 them; they shouldn't be posting in the first place. Same goes for
that Eudora bug that does put in the 'References:' header but lobs off the
very last entry, making the replies go in the wrong spot. It's just Wrong.
I haven't blocked out the Eudora thing yet (haven't seen it happen lately) but
just installed a rejection test last night for the 'Internet Mail Service
(5.5.xxxx.x)' problem, and it seems to be working.
--Todd
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