-=> Quoting Rod Speed to John Tserkezis <=-

Hello Rod,

 JT> Actually, this is the very thing that has concerned me all along with
 JT> newsgroups.  Any gated mail to fido is always addressed to
"all".  So
 JT> you don't really know a particular message is addressed to you unless
 JT> you actually read ALL the messages.
 
 JT> I know many real news readers are threaded, so you can see
 JT> the chain of replies and who started it.  Can this information
 JT> be used to somehow put in the intended "TO" name?  Or is there
 JT> simply not enough information in the message to do this?

 RS> There usually is enough. Normally the first line of the body
 RS> of the message contains who wrote what is being replied to.

 RS> It should be feasible to have a reader which has a phantom
 RS> To: field which doesnt actually from the header at all but
 RS> has been extracted from the body of the message.

 RS> There is also normally a full message ID
 RS> which allows complete threading etc too.

 Ok, my next question is, if there IS enough information in the public message
as to who that message is intended for, the WHY didn't they already write this
into the gating software?
 There is more than one gating package out there, ALL of them do the same,
address the message to all.

John Tserkezis, Sydney, Oz. Fidonet: 3:712/610  Internet: jt{at}suburbia.com.au

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