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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
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Date: 11 Oct 89 15:42:15 GMT
References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP> <11521@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6118@ficc.uu.net> <11527@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <40005@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <521@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
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In article <521@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>, mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
writes:
> Why not just have NN count the number of Message-IDs in the
> "References:" header?

But, Michael, that would be *cheating* :-).

On a more serious note, I've been working on the "broken References:"
problem, and one workaround (read: "hack") that seems to help a lot
in reconstructing References: chains is to look in the beginning of
an article for "In article <msg-id>", and using anything that appears
to augment the References: line if necessary.

This does, of course, only work for articles with quoted material,
but any information is better than none.  Has anyone else done any
experimentation with this sort of thing?

--
Amanda Walker
amanda@intercon.com