From: Martin Djernaes (djernaes@cisco.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 16:32:58 CDT
Hi,
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> In <3D2C5D6F.F8939805@cisco.com> Martin Djernaes <djernaes@cisco.com> writes:
>
> >I'm not going to wind this one up again! but the "solution" is breaking the
> >way Mr and Mrs Average expect to use a newsreader, and we have allready
> >seen that some (ignorant?) admins filter out messages starting with "Re:"
> >alike prefixes.
>
> Any admin who does that will find no support in our document.
But members of the group (this wg) still refere to "the draft" as to the
reason for filtering (and bashing people who do not care about their reader
doing funky things with their subject line).
> >Sad that no-one could come with a solution instead of a hack when this was
> >done!
>
> Are you saying that MAY is a "hack"?
No and yes. No MAY is not a hack, unless you state that a newsreader should
use the subject (stripped for the prefix) to thread/break a tread with. For
this a seperate field would offer you better (and less error prone)
abinites. Granted, this is how lot's of news readers do today, but writing
a program and writing a standard are two different things. The standard
should have the chance of correcting mistakes, programs must live with
them.
Anyway, Charles, I thank you for yout top statement, and I might qoute that
if I should hear about these stupid filters again.
Martin