Re: [OT] Broken threading

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Bj�rn Persson wrote:

> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>> When digging for bugs in knode I found the one that's causing this: knode
>> only relies on reference headers, and doesn't consider the subject in
>> absence of references.
>> 
>> Obviously, not being your fault, is very kind of you to use an
>> alternative, but since I'll get the problem with other people until this
>> is fixed in knode, you may as well use whatever is more comfortable for
>> you.
> 
> Threading by subject can put a message in the right thread, but not at the
> right position in the thread. It will also sometimes associate a new
> message with an old dead thread because they happen to have identical
> subject lines. It's a kludge really. Not having it could be considered lack
> of a feature but it's not a bug.

I see your point. I think they also consider it a lack more than a bug. I read
that kmail already has it and that a merge is planned.

> I'd say the bug is the absence of reference headers. Either Ada-France's
> gateway removes them or else Randy's Outlook Express supports reference
> headers for Usenet but not for email. Both seem like rather odd behaviour.

I'm afraid my knowledge of nntp is not enough to comment on this.