From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 08:51:00 CST
In <200403272350.i2RNoVl07151@panix5.panix.com> Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com> writes:
>Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> wrote:
>> As John (and IIRC, Seth) have noted, it is *not* necessary; an agent
>> could compare from the right, ignoring any prefix.
>I didn't, and I don't like the idea: too many (broken but existing)
>user agents truncate long Subject headers.
What he said.
I have seen threads entirely fragmented as a consequence of that.
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