Broken newsgroup threading, again (was: Re: I'm back)

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Nov 23 13:42:01 PST 2012


On Friday, 23 November 2012 at 21:37:54 UTC, Jeff Nowakowski 
wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 06:36 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>> The threading is fine in my MUA (mutt); I think somebody 
>> mentioned some
>> time ago that Mailman is inserting/substituting message IDs 
>> where it
>> shouldn't, which causes things to break. I'm not sure exactly 
>> what or
>> where, though.
>
> Yes, it is the "puremagic" mail-to-news gateway. Here's the 
> explanation for the last time this problem was discussed:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/jo2c5s$f1$1@digitalmars.com
>
> It's about time to "fix it or fuck it" with Mailman.

I know how to work around this problem (subscribe to both the 
mailing list and newsgroup, and store both Message-IDs). I just 
need to allocate some time to work on the forum again. Hopefully 
around the end of the month.


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