Re: One another trick

On Nov 2, 12:30 pm, "T.M. Sommers" <t...@xxxxxx> wrote:

So basically it means that only Google Groups is going to thread them
correctly

Any half-way decent newsreader will use the Reference headers to
do its threading. Mozilla certainly does; changes of subject
lines (which happen often as threads drift) do not break threads.

Even if assuming that all news readers use the References header is
correct according to the RFC, you forget all those websites which parse
newsgroup to make databases out of it. I guess there is a non
negligible number of newsgroup readers or parsers that won't work
correctly with this matter, therefore it's always a good thing to stay
and use the conventional way of posting on a newsgroup, which is
keeping the original message subject by adding a "Re: " or "re: " in
front of it.

By the way, for those who sort newsgroup messages by subject, breaking
the original subject "convention" is going to produce unclassified
items, and ruins readability overall. If everybody was changing their
own message title all the time, it'd be quite a mess...

In the end though, I think that it doesn't make sense to try and abuse
the newsgroup as a whole with such a trick just to annoy "One Person".
Having non-sense messages is already enough of a burden...

Cheers
K

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