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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: List of sites with broken Followup (No References) Software
Message-ID: <7098@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 May 89 16:20:14 GMT
References: <3222@looking.UUCP>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <3222@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> Recently I wrote some software to make use of the References line in news
> articles.  Much to my dismay, I found that most articles don't have a valid
> References: line!   The reason is a small number of sites with broken posting
> programs that don't include a References: line on followups.
    [ much deleted ]
>    3 kuhub.cc.ukans.edu

I take care of the News software here at kuhub, and I have tried real hard to
convince News to followup an article and not put in a references line.  So far
I haven't been able to do it.  Could you send me some more information about
the 3 articles?  Were they perhaps from inet groups, and were munged by the
mailing list interface software?  For example comp.os.vms is also the INFO-VAX
mailing list.  I am not sure how the interface between the mailing list and
usenet news could tell that any particular article was a followup or what
should be in the references line.  I suspect that you may have to just live
with the problem in the case of mailing lists gated into news.
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