[PLUG] Threading of messages

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Sat Oct 12 20:26:13 UTC 2002


On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Mike Witt wrote: 
> Some people use this list via email, and some use it as a 
> newsgroup. It appears that, if you use it via mail, the string
> [PLUG] is prepended to the message. But [PLUG] is not prepended
> if you post via NNTP.
> 
> If I'm understanding correctly, this results in two separate
> "threads" (at least as parsed by my news reader) when people
> respond both via mail and NNTP.
> 
> I post with NNTP, but in this post I have prepended the string
> [PLUG] by hand. So, will this result in only a single "thread?"
> 
> -Mike

That depends upon how you (or your newsreader/MUA in particular) define
"thread". Mine (slrn and mutt) thread by References: rather than by Subject:
- which is a far better way to correlate, especially when someone alters the
subject.

Sandy
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