Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines? Message-ID: <6276@ficc.uu.net> Date: 24 Sep 89 22:06:52 GMT References: <1650@unocss.UUCP> <112@blekko.UUCP> <6120@ficc.uu.net> <2454@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 30 I said: >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*. In article <2454@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: > Would everybody who advocates not using the subject lines to link > threads please either: > 1) come up with a way to make your favorite thread-linking > mechanism work on gatewayed groups such as > "comp.unix.wizards"; Put the references lines (and other magic lines) *after* the header, the way Fidonet apparently does it, and the way the sources groups do it. i.e.: + From: no.such.user@cup.portal.com 25 Dec 1969 00:12:45 + Subject: Re: Re^n: Heinlein was a Bozo + Message-ID: <2^n-1@cup.portal.com> + + Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.jerry.pournelle + References: <24.dec.1969.23.20.12.verbose.10096425176284@verbose.BITNET> + + Heinlein was god, you scum-sucking fascist. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)