From: Vardhan Varma <VardhanVarma@...>
Date: 2001-08-11T14:27:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19513] Re: Help! I'm still confused about  threading in the ML

can i get a mutt on M$-Win32, which can replace my eudora.

--Vardhan

At 05:20 PM 10-08-01, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > I'm trying to track down these various message threading problems, and
> > I'm coming to the conclusion that it isn't the gateway's
> > fault. However, I'd appreciate any assistance in understanding this.
> >
> > Take messages 19444 and 19445. 19444 was posted to comp.lang.ruby and
> > gatewayed through to the mailing list. The Message-ID in the header is
> > the same on both the newsgroup and in the mailing list message.
> >
> > The response 19445 was sent in via the mailing list. It has no
> > 'references' or 'in-reply-to' header. In fact it has no reference that
> > I can see to the original article.
> >
> > Is this an MUA problem, or is the gateway stripping out some other
> > field that the MUA needs to do the linking?
>
>         This has been historically caused by M$ MUAs.  They're famous
>for breaking threading for one reason or another.  I'm using mutt and it
>does a good job of threading out the messages, but when someone posts w/
>one of the M$ clients it breaks the threading almost always.  Webmail
>programs that support threading also see a disconnect w/ threads from an
>MS poster so I'm pretty sure it's not a mutt issue.  <:~(  -sc
>
>--
>Sean Chittenden

--
Vardhan Varma <VardhanVarma@yahoo.com> ... till Yahoo is free


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