On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:17:04PM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
heinrich@wh9.tu-dresden.de said:
seems like the "The Bat" mailer inserts a counter into the "Re:" subject line so that "Re[2]:blah blah" or "Re[3]: more blah blah" show up. these are not cought by Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py and therefore are not sorted into the thread that they belong to.
What goes around, comes around. This came up in 94/95 or so with the nn newsreader. After an outcry and much quoting of RFCs nn backed down and stopped doing it. I suggest someone deal with the author of "The bat" in the same way.
Nigel.
i've found a way for The Bat users to disable that irritating behavior. http://www.mail-archive.com/tbudl@thebat.dutaint.com/msg16021.html
could you point me to an archive of that discussion? preferably with pointers to the RFCs that this behavior violates? i would like to contact the authors but not without some background information.
thanx in advance
-heinrich
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