On Sun, 27 May 2007 00:44:12 +0000, Jim Logajan wrote:


Seems one common bug is to simply eat everything in front of the colon.

The following newsreaders used for replies in the "OT: Electric cars"
thread "do the right thing":

Xnews, KNode, Trn, Forte

Pan and whatever I've used previously. I've never heard of this "common
bug". And I've been USENETing since the early 80s or so. I've also
long used a string followed by a colon in the subject line in various
situations (ie. "Q:") and never perceived a problem.


The following newsreader used for replies in that thread "do the wrong
thing":

MS Outlook Express

Another MS blunder.

Ah. Dog Bites Man.

BTW, whats' wrong with displayed threading by threads instead of subject?
The latter can display messages in an invalid order (with "order" being
the partial ordering based upon the relationship reply-response); that
doesn't occur when "In-reply-to" or "References" are used.

- Andrew