Python mailing list vs. References: (was Re: My quarterly question on Design by Contract in Python...)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <87d8059qdl.fsf at psyche.evansnet>,
Carey Evans  <c.evans at clear.net.nz> wrote:
>aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
>>
>> I've noticed that posts from both Tim Peters and David Ascher are coming
>> through unthreaded, and I suspect it's because either either the mailing
>> list software or their mailers are not preserving the References: line
>> correctly.  Is there anything that can be done about this?
>
>I'm not exactly surprised that Outlook doesn't generate a References:
>header.
>
>However, at least the In-Reply-To header it inserts seems to contain a 
>valid Message-ID, which your software (and mine) could use to thread
>the articles, if someone wrote the code to do so.

Okay, so the Mailman software should copy In-Reply-To: to References: if
References: does not exist.  That seems like a simple patch.
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