On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:38:48AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:40:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Similarly, Alan's mail configuration breaks threads for some reason. > > Yes well, he and I were both curious about reading the gateway using a > newsreader (slrn) and responding to the list using an MUA (mutt). > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03153.html > > It turns out that the References: and Message-ID: headers are > rewritten by the news gateway. I have since discovered that threading > can (hopefully) be preserved by copying the News gateway headers, > X-Original-References: -> References:, and X-Original-Message-ID: -> > Message-ID: .
Not to those headers in your own post, I hope ... (Apologies if you meant to construct a new References: header based on those and I just misunderstood you.) > Veering [further] off-topic, I notice that at least one other person > has posted a genuine question to the News gateway in the last few days > (the person was admirably helped by someone else reading and posting > to the gateway). I guess it is non-obvious to some people grazing > Usenet that the gateway is meant to be RO. I am wondering if a post > to the gateway could be automated to go out every week or two just to > clarify this to the Usenet denizens (who may have legitimate questions > for the list)? I think that would be useful. However, the news gateway is, as far as I know, run by a third party, so you'll need to contact whoever that is to arrange for it to happen. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
