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