From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T06:58:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Proper MUA use [Was: Re: Newbie Ruby and C question]

I usually avoid entanglement in these sorts of holy wars, but I have
one concern to bring up with respect to In-Reply-To / References and
hijacked threads. This mailing list, and many others of the sort, are
synced with a usenet newsgroup (in this case comp.lang.ruby) through a
Usenet <-> ML gateway. I don't care how sophisticated your mailing
agent is or isn't, posts threading needs to respect whatever the
gateway expects to:

A) Prevent threads from breaking (a post that should belong to a
thread doesn't), and

B) Prevent threads from being hijacked (a post that shouldn't belong
in a thread does)

A large portion, possible even a majority (though I don't know the
actual statistics), of the users of this list are using it through
usenet. Let's not break it for them.

Jacob Fugal