From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27244 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Broken References (was: Cups) Date: 25 Nov 1999 12:00:41 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86903n762l.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> <9t9wvr6fnub.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164303 23570 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA29082 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:02:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAC13306; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:01:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:01:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00641 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:01:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA29074 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:00:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 26330 invoked by uid 50); 25 Nov 1999 20:00:42 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "25 Nov 1999 19:06:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27244 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27244 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > Correction: it's the servers that are/were broken. More precisely, the > servers didn't care, but the engine that creates NOV databases wouldn't > handle folded headers correctly. This resulted in articles produced by > Gnus being threaded incorrectly despite their correct contents and > despite newsreaders being perfectly able to process them. > In the spirit of "be conservative in what you send," Gnus was modified > not to fold References by default, although folding them was clearly the > right thing. > Interoperability is sometimes _so_ sucky. I think the only servers with that problem were 1.4-vintage INN servers. At some point, Gnus should probably go back to wrapping as those servers won't be around forever.... -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)