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On 6/24/2011 5:09 PM, David W Noon wrote: |
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> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:12:26 -0700, kashani wrote about [gentoo-user] |
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> Don't start a new thread by changing the subject: |
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>> I've noticed this a couple of times this week. A few of you |
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>> have responded to the annoying Fortran thread, changed the subject, |
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>> started a new message, and sent the email starting a new thread. |
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> You're a week or two behind the times. The root cause of this was done |
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> to death some time ago. It is the bofh.it NNTP server that propagates |
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> this mailing list through Usenet. There is nothing we can do except |
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> avoid using servers downstream from that rogue server. |
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My understanding is that the NNTP server was munging headers thereby |
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creating new threads where it should have been a single thread. This is |
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users responding to an existing email, removing all content, changing |
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the subject, and then sending the mail which keeps the thread headers |
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and make it appear to be part of the current thread. I see it all the |
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time on the motorcycle lists where the average user is much less |
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computer proficient. |
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kashani |
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