[gameprogrammer] Re: OT: Request

David Olofson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007, Olivier Delannoy wrote:
>> Most of the post stated above do not appears in a single thread
>> here. 
>> And they don't appears with a Re: in the subject at all.
> [...]
> 
> It's not abouth the Subject: header. It's about headers like 
> In-Reply-To:, References: and maybe some others. These are not 
> normally visible in most clients, but they *are* usually copied when 
> you hit reply. These headers allow clients and other tools to keep 
> track of threads regardless of Subject: - but they have the side 
> effect of causing confusion when people abuse the reply button.

If you look at the archives at gameprogrammer.com
(http://www.gameprogrammer.com/archive/html/thrd305.html) you can see what
David is talking about, because MHonArc threads based on the References and
In-Reply-To headers as well.
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