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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <6120@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Sep 89 12:22:19 GMT
References: <1650@unocss.UUCP> <112@blekko.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <112@blekko.UUCP>, skrenta@blekko.UUCP (Rich Skrenta) writes:
> It's not rn-bigotry.  It's rn, notes, or any newsreader that tries to follow
> threads based on the subject line.

Following threads based on subject line is wrong. Subject lines are user-
edited, and change continually. They very rarely have much to do with the
subject, outside of moderated groups. A newsreader that depends in them
is broken. You've got a problem with buggy software, and that's that.

The right way to follow threads is the references line. If you really want
to do a good deed get people to fix the software that breaks *that*.
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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