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JT wrote: > This is a dysfunction in MailMan software, not a people problem. > Iow, if the software can't match up by subject line, then who's fault > is that? Even worse, using MailMan as a data store is..
Additionally, Mailman is *NOT* a data store. It's almost completely transient. The mail comes in for a list, Mailman processes it, massages it a bit, and then redistributes it. After it's redistributed, Mailman is no longer concerned with it in the slightest.
John Ross wrote:
> When a message gets created it gets an ID the one I am replying to > has something like this in the header Message-ID: > <40C1A767.1080408@xxxxxxxxxx> the one Scott replied to has someyhing > like Message-ID: <40C1A590.50308@xxxxxxxxxx> but it also has > something like References: > <20040604131845.39041.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In-Reply-To: > <20040604131845.39041.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> You can see what > this does to messages in the archives > http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200406/threads.html And for > the hijacked message > http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200406/msg00144.html And for > the new message > http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200406/msg00180.html
david
-- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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