[Mailman-Developers] pipermail: subjects with "Re[2]:" are not recognized as reply

[Heinrich Langos]

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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                Heinrich Langos <heinrich@null.net>
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