Thomas said:
Andrew Berg wrote:
[…]
As for your question in the Subject, I do not know since I am reading the
newsgroup.
Therefore, however, I can tell you that the mailing list to Usenet
gateway is seriously borked, as missing References header fields are not
generated by the gateway. As a result, there are few if any threads left
in the newsgroup, which makes it an increasing PITA to read. (And no,
threading by Subject is a stupid idea.)
Would someone responsible *please* fix this? I am willing to provide
assistance, see also my suggestion in
<news:
[email protected]>.
Who is responsible?
If I knew that I would not ask here.
I think in the past there were not many broken threads. I wonder what
changed this.
One factor, as I see it, is an increasing number of people using e-mail
clients that do not generate the References header field, as it is only a
SHOULD, not a MUST per RFC 5322, or people using mail clients that are FUBAR
(like G2, Google Groups and Mail). But that header field is mandatory for
Network News (RFC 5536), and if it is missing you create a mess for
newsreaders (applications and people alike). "Bugs" making a slumbering
real bug in the gateway implementation apparent.
But that appears to be only half the truth as e.g. I can retrieve none of
the messages that <
[email protected]> of
15:19 GMT+02:00 today refers to, regardless from where they supposedly
originated. I am not deleting messages locally and I have a rather fast and
reliable newsfeed, so the messages should have arrived by now.