OT: clp threading?

[Aahz]

In article <b27a29$a0v$3 at wheel2.two14.net>,
Martin Maney  <maney at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>This has been an annoyance for a while; with a couple days' worth of
>posts arriving [mostly] in one thread over the weekend it's become more
>so.  Here's the itch:
>
>I read clp as news.  Some folks' articles seem to be prone to winding
>up in the sump - it looks like they arrive without the references
>control line they should have, or perhaps with it mangled (truncated?). 
>I have the impression that the source of this problem may be a certain
>consumer software company's products, but never mind that.  My question
>is, does anyone know of a cure for this?

The fix is to change the Mailman mail->news gateway to copy the
Message-ID of the Reply-To: field to the References: field IFF there is
no References: field or References: is blank.  I've had this on my plate
for literally years, but never had the time to actually go through the
Mailman code to do the work.
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