Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

[Dale]

David W Noon wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:20:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
> Re: Threads changing  Was: OT: website design:
>
> [snip]
>
>> This is what Knode is showing as header references in your message
>> that I thereafter responded using Knode and news.gmane.org:
>>
>> Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
>>
> Bingo!  We have our culprit.
>
> Here is my Path: header for your message:
>
> Path: mx04.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!
> feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.x-privat.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!
> robomod
>
> A Path: line is read from right to left.  This means that the message
> started at "robomod" -- which is a mail->news gateway, most likely from
> the list server -- and then went via NNTP to news.nic.it and then to
> bofh.it.  Only at this stage were the message id's modified!!  This is
> not the list server, as I had previously thought, but some newsserver
> that has penchant for corrupting header lines.
>
> Perhaps the BOFH description is appropriate. ... :-)
>
> [For those not old enough to remember, here is a link to the original:
>    http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php
> ]
>
> The upshot is that anybody who reads this list through an NNTP server
> that is downstream from bofh.it will be replying with bogus message
> id's.  This will cause thread breakage whenever a reader's MUA cannot
> rebuild the thread from Subject: and Date: header lines.
>
> Just *why* the bofh.it server does this to the message id's has me
> baffled.
>

By the way, your reply started a new thread, either yours or the 
previous message broke something.

I'm not quite so confused now.  This didn't help any:

Bastard Operator From Hell (/BOFH/)

This is another way of reading that but there may be a few ladies on 
here.  ;-)  I now realize that you are talking about a news server 
thingy.  lol  Cleared up a little mud at least.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)