Re: [ADMIN] Read me first!

---------

Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:44:54 -0500 (CDT)


Steve writes:

# (There's anther incentive to keep a single message-id, which
# hasn't been mentioned yet. If a followup message makes reference
# to a previous message -- either in the In-Reply-To: or References:
# headers, or in somewhere in the body of the message -- it's of
# course natural to use the message-id. But no existing mailer
# software is ever going to construct an In-Reply-To: line based
# on Lyris's new X-Message-Id: header, which we can of course
# immediately tell is nonstandard by the leading X-. Take a look
# back at the In-Reply-To: headers for the messages to this list
# since the software changeover -- every one of them that mentions
# a message-id is meaningless to all but one of the members on the
# list.)

And on top of that, the hypermail archives on faqs.org will not thread
the articles properly as they did before. All the Messig-IDs and References
are totally inaccurate.

-- 
Kent Landfield                        Phone: 1-817-545-2502             
Email: kent@landfield.com             http://www.landfield.com/
Email: kent@nfr.net                   http://www.nfr.net/
Please send comp.sources.misc related mail to kent@landfield.com
Search the Usenet FAQ Archive at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/


[ Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive | Search Mail Archive | Authors | Usenet ]
[ 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 ]

---------

faq-admin@faqs.org

© Copyright The Internet FAQ Consortium, 1997
All rights reserved