Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linus is on a powertrip.. | Date | Thu, 01 Oct 1998 12:36:05 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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> I don't know how good such software is, though, since > mail doesn't have a references line, like news does, to make threading > easy. It would be possible, I suppose, for a sophisticated program to > examine the quoting in each mailing list message and figure out what > each is a response to, and syntehsis references information that way, but > I don't know if any of the mail --> news software is that smart.
Well mail has "In-reply-to".
Just as some news spam filters drop subject "Re:" without References, some mail spam filters drop subject "Re:" without In-reply-to.
If you have a cache of In-reply-to headers and message ID's, you can then build the References header.
David.
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