From: J. B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 22:17:37 CST
On 2/5/04 7:17 AM, Charles Lindsey at <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> However, for this enhanced behaviour to work correctly, this new software
> has to assume that followup agents will not do "stupid" things (like
> allowing two "Re:"s, or unnecessary fiddling with whitespace, or
> unnecessary truncation). Note that not adding a "Re: " at all is not
> "stupid", and causes no problem for those agents.
It might not cause problems for those agents, but it could very well cause
problems for other agents -- there's no reason at all why when encountering
an article without "Re: " at the beginning, it shouldn't internally create a
new "thread".
> For an example of a truly "broken" agent, consider Outlook Express. Given
> in the precursor:
>
> Subject: FOO: bar
>
> it will produce in the followup
>
> Subject: Re: bar
>
> :-(
Which is an outgrowth of their ignoring what everyone else was doing in the
first place...