Comment by π clseibold
Re: "So I Read the Netnews Specs"
@jecxjo Yeah, the previous post's threading was different, because it wasn't for mailinglists/newsgroups, it was for an end-user's mailbox. From the perspective of a mailinglist, because everyone can pretty much see or access every thread, it is assumed that the use of the same subject all goes to the same thread.
From the perspective of an end-user's mailbox, you might have overlapping subjects from different people, and you don't want those mails to be put into the same threads. That's why you take into account the participants in the conversation as well. Replies and sub-threads were not really considerations in any of the threading that I was picturing or talking about.
Anyways, I'm going to get the newsfin group setup soon. I think I'm going to name it "newsfin.announce" though. Since this system is using misfin addresses for each newsfin group, I don't want to pick names that could conflict with common misfin address names on pubnix servers, etc.
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So I Read the Netnews Specs β Two things in the internet world have always fascinated me: newsgroups and mailinglists. I didn't grow up in the BBS world of the 1990s, but the idea of distributed messaging among multiple different hosts led me to experiment with a lot of different federated/distributed protocols and networks. Mailinglists, on the other hand, take an already ubiquitous network, email, that is not nearly as held down by binary sharing, copyright infringements, illegal activity,...
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