On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 at 12:47, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> SMTP (mail), like NNTP (mail), actually contain headers with prior 'Message 
> ID' enumeration, which allows for full threading of an entire conversation. 
> This is not only an effective 1970-80s implement, but still works in the age 
> of web archives.
>



Bryan, I,m not having a go at you, but, in that case, I apologise for
being too old (fellow gen-X almost boomer here) and for getting on the
Open Source bandwagon when there were no containers, no dockers, no
GUI-automated front ends to anything, when boot loaders and boot
scripts could be edited by hand, when bug reports and patches were
sent to, and solved on, mailing lists and/or IRC channels (those
backward primitives at *BSD still do that. Cavemen!).

There was a time when being in the Open Source community required no
certifications; when mentioning Linux or Unix at work would trigger a
disciplinary procedure (it happened to me circa 2006/7 and in one
occasion this was a company selling Linux-based products) and it
required a certain mental discipline.

Linux is still my daily driver, but when I read (paraphrasing) "I've
been certified for 10 years, why doesn't such and such use a certain
email address, and by the way I don't give a toss about mail
etiquette", then I want to crawl back to my NetBSD cave.

P.S.: Yearly reminder that the BSD Specialist cert still lacks
learning materials and that the wiki still contains inaccuracies that
I reported long time ago.

-- 
Ottavio Caruso

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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