Re: Some screwiness with aioe the past few days

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On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:23:38 -0400, kensi had the audacity to say the 
following: 


> 
> On 6/18/2021 8:51 AM, Mr Ön!on wrote:
> > kensi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> Replying to e.g. <[email protected].????>, a post in afn,
> >> does not work properly. One gets an error "Re: without references",
> >> despite having simply hit "followup" or "reply" in one's newsreader,
> >> edited, and sent normally (no header editing or other malarkey). Editing
> >> the "Re:" in the subject to "Ye:" prevents the error, but the resulting
> >> article no longer will be threaded correctly.
> > 
> > JD's homebrew 'reader posting malformed articles is causing that.
> 
> Shouldn't affect anyone else's articles' acceptance, just their own.
> 
> Otherwise you've just handed usenetters a functioning Last Word Device, 
> whereby it's possible to guarantee having the Last Word by physically 
> preventing correctly-threaded followups to one of your articles from 
> being posted.
> 
> This is the Usenet equivalent of arming every man, woman, and child with 
> nukes.
> 
> Obviously that is not cricket.

       <crickets>

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