[WikiEN-l] Proxies and blocking (was: The whole point of wikipedia)

Sat Oct 22 00:37:33 UTC 2005

On 10/21/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/05, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
> > Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> > > Don't forget to change the "Subject" header of your email:
> > >
> > > * Proxies and blocking
> > >
> > > Is more specific then
> > >
> > > * The whole point of Wikipedia
> > >
> > > Ed Poor
> > > (One of several mailing list admins)
> >
> > Actually, please don't, as it screws up the threading system in a number
> > of email clients including Thunderbird.
> >
>
> They're broken. The in-reply-to header determines threading in email,
> going back as far as RFC 822.
>
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html

What does this thread have to do with "proxies and blocking"?