Subject changes for replies about lobstersnntp HOT 6 CLOSED

What's trn4's criteria for subject names and threading? Most clients I've seen just use References. I know Xnews will just collapse the repeated subject names into ellipses, but still properly thread them.

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The threading works properly based on the References headers -- you can see the tree view in the upper right corner. The (1) means that the message has the first subject line (and also that it has been read), the [2] means that the message has a different subject (and that it has not been read yet).

When reading a thread it isn't too much of a problem, although in the message selector screen it looks like this if the first message has not yet been read:

g+calvin            1  NattyNarwhal/LobstersNntp: Lobsters NNTP gateway
  calvin            2  >Reply to skkkda
  technetium 

If the first message in the thread has been read, then the message selector screen only shows the Reply to subject line. This makes it hard to know which original post they belong to:

e+calvin            2  >Reply to skkkda
  technetium      

from lobstersnntp.

Ah, that explains a lot. When I insert the comments, they're done w/o a reference to the stories, but I suppose I can (pull up the story|provide it when inserting) to properly mangle the subject.

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Looks good in both article selector and tree view. mimetypes are still my problem.

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Hmm, I do declare the mime-type properly (text/html, UTF-8). I'm guessing older clients don't support it, so I'll have to put some quoted-printable in there, strip the HTML, and provide the HTML as a MIME attachment?

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I put the MIME stuff into #3.

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