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Re: Posts to the mailing list - Broken reference headers



Hi Joy, Hi list!

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:18:09AM +0200, Jens Müller wrote:
> > > > It happens again and again that I see postings that don't have
> > > > References-Headers. This has the consequence that thread views are
> > > > broken/incorrect.
> > >
> > > Iirc References is a nntp-thing, and mail uses In-Reply-To..
> > > My MUA (mutt) doesn't have any problems with threads in this
> > > list at least.. maybe you should stop using outlook and switch
> > > to mutt?
> > 
> > Well, it's not only outlook, it's also the tool which creates the Thread
> > Index in the list archive.
> 
> That's mhonarc, it's in the package of the same name -- if anyone wishes to
> patch, let me know :)

Mhonarc already knows how to handle References: and In-Reply-To: headers.
Is there anything else that can be done besides analyzing bodies which would
get really messy?

-- 
Peter



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