Hello mark.   
      
   29 May 17 19:05, you wrote to me:   
      
      
    ml> i'm not aware of a FTN spec concerning RE:... some software may strip   
    ml> it off on importation into the local message bases... some drop it on   
    ml> replies... it isn't that critical and software really shouldn't be   
    ml> linking on subject lines these days anyway... especially considering   
    ml> how the subject rarely ever gets changed when the topic drifts from   
    ml> one thing to another... then there are some users that specifically   
    ml> change the subject so as to try to ensure that their posts are fully   
    ml> distributed and not caught as dupes by older brain dead software...   
      
   Okay, my counter point to this is some environemnts are not posting the msgid   
   of their reply to as "REPLY". This is where my re-threading code is failing   
   over to "by subject", "by RE:" and "by timestamp" to try to keep the integrity   
   / sanity of the reader.   
      
   I have kept the PKTs for the this whole year to help me stress test my tosser   
   and message base classes for performance. And I have noticed certain (keeping   
   the names private for now) systems are posting replies with either NEWMSGID in   
   the REPLY instead of the original (like it was renumbered somewhere along the   
   way to them or durring their system's TOSS phase), and I happen to fail to by   
   subject/re/timestamp and do not find re on the subject - so I fail to "must be   
   a new thread same subject".   
      
   Am I missing something??   
      
   Ozz   
      
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