Subj : Sorry for being so silent for the past couple of months.
To   : mark lewis
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Mon Nov 20 2017 19:49:24

Hello mark.

29 May 17 19:05, you wrote to me:


 ml> i'm not aware of a FTN spec concerning RE:... some software may strip
 ml> it off on importation into the local message bases... some drop it on
 ml> replies... it isn't that critical and software really shouldn't be
 ml> linking on subject lines these days anyway... especially considering
 ml> how the subject rarely ever gets changed when the topic drifts from
 ml> one thing to another... then there are some users that specifically
 ml> change the subject so as to try to ensure that their posts are fully
 ml> distributed and not caught as dupes by older brain dead software...

Okay, my counter point to this is some environemnts are not posting the msgid 
of their reply to as "REPLY". This is where my re-threading code is failing 
over to "by subject", "by RE:" and "by timestamp" to try to keep the integrity 
/ sanity of the reader.

I have kept the PKTs for the this whole year to help me stress test my tosser 
and message base classes for performance. And I have noticed certain (keeping 
the names private for now) systems are posting replies with either NEWMSGID in 
the REPLY instead of the original (like it was renumbered somewhere along the 
way to them or durring their system's TOSS phase), and I happen to fail to by 
subject/re/timestamp and do not find re on the subject - so I fail to "must be 
a new thread same subject".

Am I missing something??

Ozz

--- GoldED+/W32 1.1.4.7
 * Origin: Because I can! (1:275/301)

.