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

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us
Mon May 10 11:01:25 EDT 1999


>>>>> "AM" == Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> writes:

    AM> I've noticed that posts from both Tim Peters and David Ascher
    AM> are coming through unthreaded, and I suspect it's because
    AM> either either the mailing list software or their mailers are
    AM> not preserving the References: line correctly.  Is there
    AM> anything that can be done about this?

AFAIK, Mailman does not touch the References: header at all.  If
they're there in the original message, whether posted to the n.g. or
the mailing list, they'll show up in the forwarded message.

-Barry




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