On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:20:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Re: Threads changing  Was: OT: website design:

[snip]
>This is what Knode is showing as header references in your message
>that I thereafter responded using Knode and news.gmane.org:
>
>Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail

Bingo!  We have our culprit.

Here is my Path: header for your message:

Path: mx04.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!
feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.x-privat.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!
robomod

A Path: line is read from right to left.  This means that the message
started at "robomod" -- which is a mail->news gateway, most likely from
the list server -- and then went via NNTP to news.nic.it and then to
bofh.it.  Only at this stage were the message id's modified!!  This is
not the list server, as I had previously thought, but some newsserver
that has penchant for corrupting header lines.

Perhaps the BOFH description is appropriate. ... :-)

[For those not old enough to remember, here is a link to the original:
  http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php
]

The upshot is that anybody who reads this list through an NNTP server
that is downstream from bofh.it will be replying with bogus message
id's.  This will cause thread breakage whenever a reader's MUA cannot
rebuild the thread from Subject: and Date: header lines.

Just *why* the bofh.it server does this to the message id's has me
baffled.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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