Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!well!pokey From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines? Message-ID: <13666@well.UUCP> Date: 16 Sep 89 06:54:44 GMT References: <2454@auspex.auspex.com> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 26 In the referenced message, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) wrote: } 1) come up with a way to make your favorite thread-linking } mechanism work on gatewayed groups such as } "comp.unix.wizards"; My comp.unix.wizards directory currently has: 463 articles 158 articles without References: 15 articles without References: and with Re: in the subject I suggest that one reasonable way to have reference-following handle gatewayed groups is to ignore them. Let it break on 3% of the articles. Who cares, it would still work loads better than subject-following. Or, you could fall back on subject-following when the references line is missing. However, this is only a suggestion. How you read news is your business, not mine, and I'm happy with how I read news. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer pokey@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey "It has been said that physicists stand on one another's shoulders. If this is the case, then programmers stand on one another's toes, and software engineers dig each other's graves."