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On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:20:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] |
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Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design: |
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>This is what Knode is showing as header references in your message |
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>that I thereafter responded using Knode and news.gmane.org: |
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>Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail |
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Bingo! We have our culprit. |
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Here is my Path: header for your message: |
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Path: mx04.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org! |
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feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.x-privat.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it! |
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robomod |
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A Path: line is read from right to left. This means that the message |
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started at "robomod" -- which is a mail->news gateway, most likely from |
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the list server -- and then went via NNTP to news.nic.it and then to |
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bofh.it. Only at this stage were the message id's modified!! This is |
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not the list server, as I had previously thought, but some newsserver |
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that has penchant for corrupting header lines. |
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Perhaps the BOFH description is appropriate. ... :-) |
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[For those not old enough to remember, here is a link to the original: |
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http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php |
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The upshot is that anybody who reads this list through an NNTP server |
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that is downstream from bofh.it will be replying with bogus message |
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id's. This will cause thread breakage whenever a reader's MUA cannot |
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rebuild the thread from Subject: and Date: header lines. |
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Just *why* the bofh.it server does this to the message id's has me |
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baffled. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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