Broken newsgroup threading (was: Re: An observation)

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:00:40AM -0400, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 06:07 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> >
> >Does the D newsgroup have broken threading in mutt? In my client
> >threading breaks often because some answers starts new thread etc.
> >makes the hole thing useless.
> 
> The broken threading is caused by the Mailman newsgroup to mailing
> list gateway, as described in this post:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/akftpzpkwuoqmfzijhor@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net

Ahhh, that explains so much. Thanks for pointing this out!


> I was looking briefly at this issue recently, as it was getting
> annoying to follow the large threads in my newsreader, and it seems to
> me that the Mailman stance of changing the Message-ID is wrong.
[...]
> I found two Mailman bug reports with patches regarding this issue:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266263
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/496233
> 
> I may or may not follow up on this with the Mailman folks. If
> somebody else wants to feel free.

Is there any chance we can apply these patches to the D forums? Or are
we stuck with a default Mailman installation?


T

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