DC> Now to figure out why message threading works but does
 DC> not get passed back to other systems!

if you are talking about MSGID/REPLY threading, that depends on several
factors... the last of which is the BBS mail door software...

its well known that wildcat stuff doesn't generate REPLY lines but does
generate MSGID lines... i participated in that "discussion" with
hector santos and many others several times quite a few years ago... his
stance was that the spec was ambiguous on somethings and no one was able to
get him to see the light... things like "originating system" were
misconstrued to possibly mean "enduser's system"... totally lost
was the fact that this was a fidonet spec written for fidonet and that the
fidonet system was the system being specified... that was at least one of
the "arguments" made...

many of us just wish that he had followed along with what everyone else was
doing and didn't implement the halfassed portion that he did... i can't
recall directly or locate the messages in my archives but it seems to me
that he did the current implementation on purpose to show how things were
messed up and to try to force a change in the spec to get it better
clarified or some such...

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