From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ff7d8060c8210f40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Broken threading Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:50:48 +0100 Message-ID: <54flafF20cg7sU1@mid.individual.net> References: <545blhF1ttrphU2@mid.individual.net> <547stgF1vulshU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: individual.net VcOMJxqkWgjkGKM2R0mCggjthDqWFG1A6QH4SNpAHXkNhegi4= User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9542 Date: 2007-02-26T09:50:48+01:00 List-Id: 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.