Threading is foobared?

[Rob Gaddi]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Am I the only one who has noticed that threading of posts here is severely
> broken? It's always been the case that there have been a few posts here and
> there that break threading, but now it seems to be much more common.
>
> For instance, I see Jerry Martens' post "help with program". According to my
> newsreader, KNode, there are no replies to that thread. But I see a reply
> from Chris A. Chris' reply has a header line:
>
> In-Reply-To: <1392737302.749065.1459024715818.JavaMail.yahoo at mail.yahoo.com>
>
> but Jerry's original has:
>
> References:
> <1392737302.749065.1459024715818.JavaMail.yahoo.ref at mail.yahoo.com>
>
> Notice the difference? Here the two values lined up:
>
> <1392737302.749065.1459024715818.JavaMail.yahoo.ref at mail.yahoo.com>
> <1392737302.749065.1459024715818.JavaMail.yahoo at mail.yahoo.com>
>

Just read on Usenet instead of through the mailing list.  That way
you can accept broken threading as a given rather than wonder why it's
happening in a particular case.

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Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
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