From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-06-04T10:58:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Reply wasn't posted; will test new post

Hi,

At Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:18:38 +0900,
Dennis Oelkers wrote in [ruby-talk:102281]:
> This leads to the conclusion that we have three possible solutions:
> - Add an "In-Reply-To"/"References" flag to the header by using the
>    message-id of THAT mail => the message would appear on c.l.r., but
>    threading would be broken
> - drop the message on the floor at the gateway => ruby-talk / c.l.r.
>    are inconsistent
> - my solution: as mua's are more or less allowed to do whatever they
>    want my fear is that we get more and more of such borderline cases
>    so the only solution is that we establish identical posting policies
>    on both the mailing-list host and the gateway/nntp host we're posting
>    too. (ML-Maintainers? Any Comments on this one?)

Though I'm not a ML maintainer, one possible solution is:

(1) revive subject tag (e.g. [ruby-talk:102281]).

(2) add following hook (originally posted in [ruby-list:27934])
    to fml to construct Refereces: from the subject if necessary.

	$HEADER_ADD_HOOK = q{
	  if (!$Envelope{'in-reply-to:'} && !$Envelope{'references:'} &&
	      $Envelope{'subject:'} =~ /^re:\s*\[ruby-\w+:(d+)\]/i) {
	    if (open(REF, "$DIR/$1")) {
	      my $mid, $ref, $inref;
	      while (<REF>) {
		if (/^message-id:\s*(.+)$/i) {
		  $mid = $1;
		} elsif (/^references:\s*(.+)$/i) {
		  $ref = $1;
		  $inref = 1;
		  next;
		} elsif ($inref && /^\s/) {
		  $ref .= $_;
		  next;
		} elsif (/^$/) {
		  last;
		}
		$inref = 0;
	      }
	      close(REF);
	      if ($mid) {
		($ref = "References: $ref $mid") =~ s/\s+/ /g;
		$body .= "In-Reply-To: $mid\n$ref\n";
	      }
	    }
	  }
	};

-- 
Nobu Nakada