On Thursday 09 August 2001 12:23 pm, you wrote:
> I'm trying to track down these various message threading problems, and
> I'm coming to the conclusion that it isn't the gateway's
> fault. However, I'd appreciate any assistance in understanding this.
>
> Take messages 19444 and 19445. 19444 was posted to comp.lang.ruby and
> gatewayed through to the mailing list. The Message-ID in the header is
> the same on both the newsgroup and in the mailing list message.
>
> The response 19445 was sent in via the mailing list. It has no
> 'references' or 'in-reply-to' header. In fact it has no reference that
> I can see to the original article.
>
> Is this an MUA problem, or is the gateway stripping out some other
> field that the MUA needs to do the linking?

It sounds like a user agent or user problem. For all you know, Christophe 
just typed in "RE: question about ::" into his Subject line. Or maybe he's 
using a mail agent that doesn't set the in-reply-to or references headers for 
some reason.

This message was posted as a reply to your 19446 message. 
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Ned Konz
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