At 2:25 PM -0500 2005-02-08, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
Right, but why are we providing the option in the first place? To try to show threading? Seems that it would cause more grief like that which Brad was alluding to earlier.
I'm not 100% certain, but I don't think that the subject numbering issue has any direct relation to the mail/news gateway process. I think it's intended for use in mail-only environments, perhaps such as an official support mailing list where things need to be tracked by ticket number, etc.... In this case, the subject numbering would presumably become the ticket number.
I'm just wondering if we're losing a good fix due to an incompatibility with a feature that might not be used.
So long as there's an optional way to cause that to be pulled back out when the message is gatewayed to a newsgroup, and the overall feature defaults to off, I don't see that there's much of a problem here. But it certainly can make life in other areas more complex.
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