phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (10/15/84)
Here's an idea I just had. My understanding of the reason news users
get articles with "Orphaned Response" for a subject line is that
when a msg comes into a notes system, it gets sent out with
an "Orphaned Response" subject line if the parent (base) note isn't
there. When the base note does come in, then users on the notes system
get the correct subject line but their news neighbors don't edit the
followup article's subject line even when the parent article comes in.
One approach would be for notes to hold the followup until the base
note came in, then the followup would have the correct subject.
Another approach would be for news to go edit the followup article's
subject line when the base note came in.
Finally, notes could avoid stripping the subject line on the followup
when it entered the notes system. I assume that the followup has the
correct subject line at some point because it had to be generated as
a response to a base note and both news and notes can do that correctly.
Then again, I could be all wet in my understanding of notes.
It would help if people would run a modern version of uucp that
sends things out in the order generated.
from the rice eater
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