246059 - News article threading done incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164115

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Gina Bull]

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News article threading is done identically to Netscape product, but they do it 
incorrectly. Threading should be based only on the References: header. If an 
article has no References: header but uses the same subject string as an 
existing thread, it is a NEW thread. 
(I have been a Usenet administrator for 19 years, and have great hopes that 
Thunderbird can become a *good* browser-based newsreader.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In a test newsgroup, compose a NEW message but type the Subject line to 
match an existing subject (like "Test").
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
When the article is displayed (after clicking Get Mail) it will appear in the 
display of the existing strand. That's wrong -- it should be treated as a new 
thread. (It is the responsibility of the newsreader to do the threading based 
on the headers stored on the NNTP server for the article.)

Expected Results:  
The new article should be displayed separately from the existing strand since 
it was posted as a new article, not as a follow-up.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164115 ***