On 2/15/02, Emmanuel. M. Decarie said:

>How does Conversant deal with this in nntp. I guess, there is no need
>of a message id there too. If there is a message ID, how the
>newsreader can thread?

You'll find that most newsreaders are not very good at threading messages,
because Outlook Express doesn't include In-Reply-To headers in either
Email or News message. So, messages sent via NNTP from Outlook won't be
threaded.

Sean McMains, who wrote Conversant's news server, wrote to Microsoft to
ask them to fix it. Much to our surprise, they didn't respond.

;-)

I wrote to Sam about this privately, but that was because he was the only
person to mention it. I'll quote myself here, and await your response.

>After two years of complaining that so many email clients and web
>mail systems don't include In-reply-to headers, we didn't either.
[That was supposed to say, "I realized that we didn't, either." -Seth]
>
>We do now, and I'm hoping that having them will allow Eudora to
>thread your messages properly. I know that Mailsmith can do it
>with In-Reply-To and Message-Id headers, so hopefully Eudora can
>too.
>
>I *just* added this. You'll see that my message #16050 was the
>first to have it.
>
>Let me know if it works or not, okay? I'd love to please
>everybody. :-)

If it turns out that the In-Reply-To headers aren't fixing the threading
in Eudora, and the majority here seem to feel that threading in Eudora is
more important than threading in the browser, I'll be happy to pull the
message numbers out of the subjects again.

Seth

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