Re: threading broken in g.e.gnus

[Tim Howe]

On 03 Apr 2013, wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse) wrote:

> Tim Howe <vsync@quadium.net> writes:
>
>> I'm noticing many of the threads in here are completely broken.  It
>> seems the Message-IDs are getting replaced by Mailman ones so References
>> and In-Reply-To headers are left dangling.
>
> You can try customizing `gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function'.
> Gnus's default is indeed to fall back on Subject if References are
> wrong

Thanks for that, but I was actually commenting on the munging itself,
not how Gnus is handling it on display.  It seems something (GMANE?) is
chewing on the articles and replacing the Message-IDs with "Mailman"
ones, meaning that references and threading are broken non-predictably
depending on the path messages take.

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