Is the Usenet to mailing list gateway borked?

Thomas Guettler hv at tbz-pariv.de
Thu Jun 30 03:02:53 EDT 2011


On 30.06.2011 03:24, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Andrew Berg wrote:
> 
>> […]
> 
> As for your question in the Subject, I do not know since I am reading the 
> newsgroup.
> 
> Therefore, however, I can tell you that the mailing list to Usenet gateway 
> is seriously borked, as missing References header fields are not generated 
> by the gateway.  As a result, there are few if any threads left in the 
> newsgroup, which makes it an increasing PITA to read.  (And no, threading by 
> Subject is a stupid idea.)
> 
> Would someone responsible *please* fix this?  I am willing to provide 
> assistance, see also my suggestion in 
> <news:5337093.9J7NaK4W3v at PointedEars.de>.

Hi,

Who is responsible?

I think in the past there were not many broken threads. I wonder what
changed this.

  Thomas

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