Re: Broken references in postings

2010-03-02 Thread Aahz
In article , Grant Edwards wrote: > >I've noticed recently that a lot of the "refernces" and >"in-reply-to" headers in c.l.p are broken, resulting in the >inability to move from a child to a parent in a tree. One issue with the mail/news gateway is that (unless it's been fixed) In-Reply-To: does

Re: Broken references in postings

2010-03-02 Thread Ben Finney
Grant Edwards writes: > Or is it just individual news/mail clients that are broken? This, I believe. Many clients mess up the References and In-Reply-To fields, in the face of many years of complaint to the vendors. Most free-software clients get it right, AFAICT. -- \ “Contentment is a

Broken references in postings

2010-03-02 Thread Grant Edwards
I've noticed recently that a lot of the "refernces" and "in-reply-to" headers in c.l.p are broken, resulting in the inability to move from a child to a parent in a tree. For example in a recent reply (subejct: os.fdopen() issue in Python 3.1?), the references and in-reply-to headers both contained