On Mar 25, 2019, at 4:14 PM, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:

>

> Seeing some funny misbehavior with the archive, or perhaps people are

> reposting old message threads.

>

> When I look at message https://leafe.com/archives/msg/512987 that Mike

> posted yesterday, and select the link for "View Entire Thread" the link is:

>

> https://leafe.com/archives/full_thread/512987

>

> But the resulting message is from 2004! That's a long thread, even for us!

Well, the way a “thread” is determined is by the subject line. That’s because email clients back when that code was written were pretty bad about maintaining threading via the Message-ID and In-Reply-To: headers. So I wrote something that just searches on the subject, with any “Re:”,"[NF]”, or “[OT]” prefixes ignored. So the message with the subject “Your laptop” matches the 2004 message with the subject "RE: [NF] Insure your laptop”, as well as the message from 2006 with the subject "RE: [OT] Just because you can take your laptop into the bathroom..."

It is what it is.

-- Ed Leafe

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