Ben Darnell wrote in message <28227@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>In article <28220@palm-dev-forum>, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>>
>> Who maintains the mailing lists these days?
>>
>> I notice that In-Reply-To is being stripped from all of the
>>palmos.com mailing lists, thus breaking threading irreperably. Is
>>there a decided reason for this? I doubt that this is an issue of
>>security because it's a very trivial matter to just hash the Msg-ID
>>(which isn't being stripped now anyway), or and leave the In-Reply-To
>>alone. I can see no real logical reason why palm-dev-forum,
>>emulator-forum, and conduit-forum for example have these headers
>>specifically stripped from the outgoing mail.
>
>I suspect that since these messages are going through a mail/news
>gateway (Lyris), they may be getting reduced to the lowest common
>denominator between the two varieties of headers. Threading through the
>newsgroup interface is broken too.
>
The standard behavior when encountering a header you don't
recognize is to ignore it ... I don't understand -why- anything would
be attempting to create a "least common denominator" header set.
Is that what is really going on? If so, at which place in this system?
We should discourage any sort of header tampering ...
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