On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:10:02 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design:
[snip] >Well, something works now. This is threaded as it should be. So, >whatever you are doing, keep doing it that away. lol > >I don't want you to think I was upset or anything. I just went back >and noticed you was one of the ones that it was breaking the threads >on. Not a problem. In fact, it is not I (or Indi) who is causing the breakage. A little further investigation has shown that the Message-ID: line of all message posted through the Gentoo list server is rewritten, regardless of its initial value. This is why correctly posted messages have the Bastard Operator From Hell designation: the domain name of Gentoo's list server is bofh.it. This also means that those who read this list's messages via email will always see a valid Message-ID: line. Now, one other possible cause of message id mismatch is people posting directly to Usenet as well as through the list server. All NNTP servers should have the newsgroup that is a reflection of this mailing list marked as "no posting allowed"; certainly news.eternal-september.org is configured that way. However, if a misposted message gets through from another Usenet-registered NNTP server, I will see it with the alternate Message-ID: line, not the one generated by the Gentoo list server. It is messages such as this that cause the breakage in threads when somebody (anybody) reading through an NNTP server posts a follow-up to such a message. So, when you see a breakage in a message thread, it is the message that is the tail-end of the original thread that is causing the breakage, not the message that apparently starts the new thread. I hope all is clear now. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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