[This new thread concerning an issue raised in the "question" thread initiated with <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was broken off by beginning a new message to eliminate references, then pasting in relevant material from the other thread.]
Rob Dixon wrote: > To others who have posted on this thread, I had so > much trouble working out who was saying what to whom > that I gave up. Why are all of the posts at the top > level instead of beneath the items that they corresponded > to? Thanks for the observation, Rob. This has been bugging me for some time. The problem here is that neither of the mailers used in the PHP/Perl feud makes good use of the Message-ID of the post they are responding to. The problem is not isolated, though. It seems the majority of mailers are bad in this regard. Of the 13, 139 posts in a mailbox used for this group, 13,139 had a Message-ID header line. That is very dependable. Unfortunately, only 5,582 had References: items, and only 1235 had Reply-To: lines. I doubt that the others all hand-modified their subject lines and hand-quoted the text, so I assume that there mailers are simply not good at linking posts. Folks, please examine your proof copies of the replies you send, use "Full headers" view. If you don't see any reference to the Message-ID of the post to which you are replying, look for a better mailer application. That tag is so reliable that it is insane to neglect it in a discussion group such as this. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
