OT: mail-news gateway question

[Aahz]

In article <Xns92059442A1441RASXnewsDFE1 at 130.133.1.4>,
Philip Swartzleonard  <starx at pacbell.net> wrote:
>Aahz || Sun 05 May 2002 12:34:52p:
>>
>> Note that c.l.py is a bidirectional gateway; many people post directly
>> to the newsgroup.  People who post to python-list should all have the
>> same NNTP-Posting-Host.  You can tell gatewayed e-mail by looking for
>> the X-Mailman-Version header (or any of several other obvious headers).
>
>You can also tell it in a threaded newsreader (xnews at least), because 
>the indentation will be like:
>
>[Thread started by NG person]
>  [Response from NG person]
>     [Response from NG person]*
>        [Rsponse from NG person]**
>     [Response from NG person]
>[Response from ML person to article marked *]
>  [Respnse form NG person]
>[Further response from ML person to above]
>[Response from ML person to atricle marked **[
>
>And so forth. ML people always get dumped into level-0 threading for me.

Not true.  Some people use mail clients that process References: instead
of In-Reply-To and those posts get threaded correctly.
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