[PLUG] Odd spam behavior in pine

[AthlonRob]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 20:12, Phil Tomson wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2003, AthlonRob wrote:
>
> > 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.

If you look at your message headers, you'll see this right under the
Subject line:

In-Reply-To:  <1064706556.4188.12.camel at localhost>

...and that's what it threads based on.  :-)

Your mua automagically inserts that when you decide to reply to an email
rather than starting a new email.

Rob

Hmmm... my message ID's end in @localhost?  That's not good.  :-\