Newsreaders (was Re: One another trick)

KiLVaiDeN wrote:
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,

I don't think any RFC dictates how newsreaders are to display messages.

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,

Best not to use such broken interfaces.

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.

The convention is to change the subject line when the topic drifts too far from the original topic, as I have done here.

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...

Actually, he is trying to avoid annoying many people.

--
Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@xxxxxx -- AB2SB

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