Re: Breaking the mail thread. Was: Re: Authentication for telnet.

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 05:38, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Reco wrote:

> > Threading is broken, as usual.
>
> This is probably due to extra characters in the "References:" header:
>
> > >  From:  peter@easthope.ca
> > >  X-Mailer: Oberon Mail (ejz) on LinuxA2 Gen. 32-bit, rev.8586
> > >  To:     debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > >  Cc: peter@easthope.ca
> > >  References: <[?0;] E1iEER9-0002iD-Bu@joule.invalid> <[?0;] [?0;] E1iEFVa-0000dK-EW@enotuniq.net> <[?0;] E1iEgrJ-0007Ad-G2@joule.invalid> <[?0;] E1iElQb-0000p6-0Y@joule.invalid> <[?0;] [🔎] E1iF9u7-0000jl-Ga@joule.invalid> <[?0;] [🔎] E1iFBxB-0004Sl-OS@enotuniq.net> <[?0;] [🔎] E1iFMAG-0000OF-L6@joule.invalid> <[?0;] [🔎] E1iFNnA-0005QX-2F@enotuniq.net>
>
> Those "[?0;] " should not be inside the <>-brackets.

I wonder if that is related to terminal ANSI colour escape codes,
which do include characters of square brackets, digits and
semicolon chars.

I wonder if Peter is cutting and pasting that information from a
coloured terminal window, and the ANSI colour code is not correctly
discarded and so is corrupting his paste.

I got the impression this might be part of his writing process from
this message:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg01376.html

I wonder if those characters are visible to Peter before
and/or after the paste?

Have a wonder-full day :)