David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:10:02 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > Threads changing Was: OT: website design: > > [snip] >>Well, something works now. This is threaded as it should be. So, >>whatever you are doing, keep doing it that away. lol >> >>I don't want you to think I was upset or anything. I just went back >>and noticed you was one of the ones that it was breaking the threads >>on. > > Not a problem. In fact, it is not I (or Indi) who is causing the > breakage. > > A little further investigation has shown that the Message-ID: line of > all message posted through the Gentoo list server is rewritten, > regardless of its initial value. This is why correctly posted messages > have the Bastard Operator From Hell designation: the domain name of > Gentoo's list server is bofh.it. This also means that those who read > this list's messages via email will always see a valid Message-ID: line. > > Now, one other possible cause of message id mismatch is people posting > directly to Usenet as well as through the list server. All NNTP > servers should have the newsgroup that is a reflection of this mailing > list marked as "no posting allowed"; certainly > news.eternal-september.org is configured that way. However, if a > misposted message gets through from another Usenet-registered NNTP > server, I will see it with the alternate Message-ID: line, not the one > generated by the Gentoo list server. It is messages such as this that > cause the breakage in threads when somebody (anybody) reading through > an NNTP server posts a follow-up to such a message. > > So, when you see a breakage in a message thread, it is the message that > is the tail-end of the original thread that is causing the breakage, > not the message that apparently starts the new thread. > > I hope all is clear now.
... as mud! This reply of yours (unlike your previous) is shown as a new thread in Knode, not as a threaded reply to Dale's message. :@ PS. I'm responding using Knode and news.gmane.org as an NNTP server, to see what difference this may make. -- Regards, Mick
