Re: Google Groups filtering emails?

Robert Spanjaard wrote:

> On 21 Jul 2005 01:45:02 GMT, Blinky the Shark wrote:

>>> Most newsreaders (in fact all except OE, AFAIK) strip the oldest
>>> (most left) references to stay within the 998 chars limit.

>> Seems like they should leave the first one and strip from the second
>> one to the [whatever it takes]th one. [ quoting not allowed; see
>> previous message for content .................................... ],
>> but don't quote me on that.

If you're going to QUOTE (and that's what those greter-than symbols
mean), then don't tamper with what you're QUOTING. It's no longer a
quote, once you doctor it. Quote honestly or don't quote at all.

> RFC1036, 2.2.5:

> It is permissible to not include the entire previous "References"
> line if it is too long. An attempt should be made to include a
> reasonable number of backwards references.

And - whatever its status[1] - son-of-1036 expands that (and this is
what I remembered and mentioned in my last message):

"NOTE: The first message ID is very important as the starting point of
the "thread" of discussion, and absolutely should not be deleted.
Keeping the last three message IDs gives thread-following software a
fighting chance to reconstruct a full thread even if an article or two
is missing."

http://www.kcwc.com/son-of-1036.html#6.5

[1]I think it's a good doc to follow, but I guess it's also still a
draft.

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