On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 20:32 -0500, Alex wrote: > > Every email has a unique-ish Message-Id. Proper MUAs, when replying, > > will set the In-Reply-To header to the just replied-to message's > > Message-Id, and likewise add it to the list in the References header. > > Yes, I understand this. I just thought the "thread view" period for a > message would be about a month or so, not six, and therefore would no > be lost in an old archive, but instead just treated as a new message.
There is no time period. The In-Reply-To header reflects the parent message's Message-Id, and References keeps all of the parents. > > That's pretty much everything to understand, here. Probably not worth to > > quit over it. :) > > I meant quit on this off-topic thread before I make myself look any > more inept :-) That's the beauty of anonymous addresses, isn't it? OK, we've had this topic before. ;) Well, it probably was more worthwhile than most of the "something broke" threads. And the lesson anyway is, if you are using a third-party sig downloader script, subscribing to the sanesecurity list probably is a good idea. -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml