From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 16:52:43 CDT
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> wrote:
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu):
>>Numerous other systems make use of structure in the Subject header.
>
> I think the relevant point there is that they are "other systems". News
> does not make use of structure, or at least, is wrong when it does,
So you want to claim that robomoderated newsgroups are "wrong"?
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings requires a keyword in the Subject
header in order to post.
soc.singles.moderated requires that your first posting have a password
in the Subject header. If it's missing, the bot tells you what it
is. (This is enough to stop almost all spammers.)
I believe that trn makes use of "Re: " in the Subject header in
constructing the thread diagram it shows.
You may or may not like those, and I may or may not like them; but
neither does that make them "wrong". They just _are_.
Seth