In bit.listserv.ibm-main, Hal Merritt wrote: [snip] > Some sort of spam/malware countermeasures??
I'd suspect a plain old incompatibility.... I saw a problem very similar to this with some of my followups on a newsgroup a while back. What was happening there was that my client was formatting some of my posts' headers like so: Subject: Re: Same old subject References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newer clients and (more importantly) servers (that implement RFC2822 conventions) will treat the References: as a single header, but older software will treat it as an empty header and may remove it. Once that header is removed, the remaining References: content is considered a continuation of the Subject: header. In my messages' case (usenet), this happened at some later server/client. The message was fine on my news server, but had a garbled subject, just like we're seeing here, when viewed on Google Groups. So replies from there included a "new" subject of the form: Subject: Re: Same old subject <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps something analogous is happening here? If (Groupwise, was it?) is doing something like that, and the LISTSERV software (or some intermediate SMTP server) can't handle it, that could yield this symptom. Regards, Natarajan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
