From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 08:22:04 CST
In <20040401105504.GB25911@tagseth-trd.consultit.no> Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:
>* Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> [2004-03-29 14:51:00 +0000]:
>> In <200403272350.i2RNoVl07151@panix5.panix.com> Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com> writes:
>> >I didn't, and I don't like the idea: too many (broken but existing)
>> >user agents truncate long Subject headers.
>> I have seen threads entirely fragmented as a consequence of that.
>Why would the threads fragment? I can see how this may cause your
>news agent to indicate a change of subject, but there should be no
>fragmentation if the references header was used.
In the particular case I have in mind, one person (who has a reputation
for using broken software) truncated a Subject header. Lots of people
participating in the thread then commented upon the various ways in which
various agents had or had not mangled it further or split the thread or
whatever. Nothing to do with my own newsreader, which did in fact keep it
more-or-less together.
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