Re: Some screwiness with aioe the past few days

Checkmate <[email protected]>
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Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by Checkmate!  In article <[email protected]>, 
Checkmate <[email protected]> says...


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>Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by 
>Checkmate. 
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>On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:23:38 -0400, kensi had the audacity to say the 
>following: 
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>> 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.
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>       <crickets>
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