On Mon, 28 May 2007 02:18:00 +0000, Jose wrote:

It would be perceived by me if anyone had replied to such a message, if
I followed the "bug" explanation correctly.

Go back to the thread I referenced, view all messages, sort by subject
line. Do you see one set of messages without the OT(colon) prepend and
another set with, probably sorted in different places in the alphabet?

I expect so, but that's because sorting by thread and sorting by subject
are different operations. That they yield different results should be
no surprise.

This is one of those "doctor, it hurts when I do that", "don't do that"
type scenarios.

More, USENET being what it is, someone would have complained about it
in the years I've been doing this.

Ummmm... so?

My point being that this "bug" doesn't seem "common". I'm not sure
whether this is because the subject lines are not being damaged improperly
or because few people sort by subject.


How? I see no such artifact of "screwed up" sorting, and I've been
sorting by thread for quite a while.

Yanno, I don't have a problem with lines longer than 70 characters. My
newsreader wraps them for me. Why should I wrap my lines for other
people?

I don't know; why should you? And even if you do want to do your own
formatting, why 70 characters? It's not like we're using terminals any
longer.

I think you're trying to build some type of comparison, but you're
comparing a relatively obscure bug with something that was actually an
issue Once Upon a Time. I'm not sure what point can be discerned from
this, so I'm afraid you'll need to be more explicit.

- Andrew