[plug] [OT] List Posting/Replying

[Bernd Felsche]

James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> writes:

>In message <41612A9F.4040307 at tigris.org>
>on Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:49:03PM +0800, Tim White wrote:
>> I'm not sure how Thunderbird threads topics but it seems to follow it 
>> even with subject changes. It makes me wonder sometimes when I see a 
>> message under a thread totally unrelated.

>I've noticed that the problem is sometimes associated with senders who
>are using webmail. The problem is indeed visible in the archives:
>http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/pipermail/plug/2004-October/thread.html

>> Maybe people are replying to a message and changing the subject rather
>> than starting a new message when posting a message to the list.

>Thanks for mentioning it -- I imagine a sentence of this nature will
>find its way into our upcoming introductory e-mail.

Maybe you can reject articles that have a new subject, reference an
existing thread, but quote no text. Call it Mailman's Jackboot. :-)

OK... if you don't want to reject, then change the References and
In-Reply-To headers to X-DeReference X-NotIn-Reply-To respectively;
and see what happens.
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