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On 12 Aug 2003 Molly Mockford <nospam@mockfords.clara.co.uk> wrote
in news:ckgx8TB3rSO$Ew0a@clara.net: 

> In article <Xns93D4EE0DF93DDgrahamdrabblelineone@ID-
> 77355.user.dfncis.de> at 23:20:00 on Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Graham
> Drabble <graham.drabble@lineone.net> wrote:
> 
>>BTW, what newsreader are you using? It's getting the References: 
>>header wrong. You replied to me but the References: header only 
>>mentions Kat's article.
> 
> How very odd!  It's Turnpike 5.01, which is supposed to be fully
> compliant.  Certainly, when my post arrived back, it threaded it
> to Kat's post rather than yours, as it ought from that erroneous
> References header - and that doesn't normally happen, or I'd
> notice.  Let's see what it does with this one!

It's got this one wrong as well.

For the dist users: Kat posted with

Message-ID: <bh7ha0$uba4n$1@ID-116853.news.uni-berlin.de>

I followed up with

Message-ID: <Xns93D47316578EDgrahamdrabblelineone@ID-
77355.user.dfncis.de>
References: <bh7ha0$uba4n$1@ID-116853.news.uni-berlin.de>

Molly then followed up my post with

Message-ID: <ELmHXGBj29N$Ew9n@clara.net>
References: <bh7ha0$uba4n$1@ID-116853.news.uni-berlin.de>

(note that this is Kat's article only yet Molly followed up my post)

I responded with

Message-ID: <Xns93D4EE0DF93DDgrahamdrabblelineone@ID-
77355.user.dfncis.de>
References: <bh7ha0$uba4n$1@ID-116853.news.uni-berlin.de> 
<ELmHXGBj29N$Ew9n@clara.net>

and Molly followed up that post with

Message-ID: <ckgx8TB3rSO$Ew0a@clara.net>
References: <bh7ha0$uba4n$1@ID-116853.news.uni-berlin.de>

(still just Kat's original post).

For anyone who doesn't follow this each post has a unique Message-ID. 
When you follow up to a post your newsreader should append the 
Message-ID: of the article you are following up to the end of the 
References header of that article (or create a new References header 
with just the previous MID in it if no References header exists). 
Turnpike seems to be doing the latter option even if the References 
header exists. This causes problems with threading as most 
newsreaders use the references header to place incoming articles into 
existing threads.

-- 
Graham Drabble
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