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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Proliferation of "Re^n:" in subject lines
Message-ID: <3583@looking.on.ca>
Date: 8 Aug 89 04:13:46 GMT
References: <272@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <89Jul2.110144edt.10370@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <WISNER.89Jul2113412@anableps.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <WISNER.89Jul2113412@anableps.berkeley.edu> wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>Agreed. Hunt NN down, take it out, and stomp it. Re^n breaks virtually every
>piece of news reading software ever written, to a greater or lesser degree,
>and plays hell with mechanisms that follow Subject: threads.

While it is anti-social of NN to act this way, perhaps it's not a bad idea
in the long run.

For in the long run, it is the References line that should link messages
and threads, not the subject line.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473