[PLUG] Odd spam behavior in pine
Phil Tomson
ptkwt at aracnet.com
Sat Sep 27 20:15:02 UTC 2003
On 27 Sep 2003, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:30, Phil Tomson wrote:
> > This is from the "How do they do _that_?" department...
>
> Sounds to me like a bug in pine - the subject was probably blank, but
> when it was drawing itself, it didn't refresh the line the subject was
> on until you left the message.
>
> Also, would you mind composing a new mail to plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> instead of just hitting reply on any old message? See, a great many of
> us (the majority, I would guess) use threaded views for mailing lists
> like this, so replies to earlier posts get threaded into a tree-like
> view, similar to what you see with news readers.
>
> If you just reply to a post like this, you're replying to 'email for
> kids' rather than starting your own thread.
Even though I changed the subject line? How does the threading get messed
up if the subject is different? What information remains to tell it to go
to the old thread - just curious.
Phil
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