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Bug 347991 - Forum reply to a thread with unimported nntp messages confuses threading
Summary: Forum reply to a thread with unimported nntp messages confuses threading
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Forums and Newsgroups (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Forums and Newsgroups inbox CLA
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: 364340 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-06-01 14:34 EDT by Denis Roy CLA
Modified: 2014-09-04 15:50 EDT (History)
6 users (show)

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Gmane threading glitch (99.58 KB, image/jpeg)
2011-12-09 13:15 EST, Denis Roy CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Denis Roy CLA 2011-06-01 14:34:35 EDT 
While the forums "Quote" and "Reply" buttons both set the correct NNTP headers that allow for proper threading, I believe the Quick Reply box at the bottom does not.

This makes threaded discussion difficult in NNTP.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2011-10-13 15:52:12 EDT 
Found it:  if you reply to a topic in the forum for which there are nntp replies that have not yet been imported, the NNTP export will omit the References: header, causing the nntp server to create a new thread.

My reply in the topic below came in while a reply from Russel Bateman was already submitted via nntp.

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/245899/
Comment 2 Denis Roy CLA 2011-10-13 16:46:42 EDT 
I've changed the way we sync the nntp messages.  Previously each www node would pick 10 random newsgroups every 2 minutes -- 30 newsgroups imported every 2 minutes. Technically, many minutes could pass before a group was processed.

Now all the web nodes simply split the entire list of newsgroups and each perform a slice.  All our groups will be verified every 2 minutes.
Comment 3 Denis Roy CLA 2011-11-21 09:51:30 EST 
*** Bug 364340 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Denis Roy CLA 2011-12-09 13:15:24 EST 
Created attachment 208185 [details]
Gmane threading glitch

Apparently gmane can't even thread correctly  :)
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2013-01-08 03:51:09 EST 
Maybe just my feeling, but it seemed to be quite good in the past months but recently I see much more un-parented replies again.
Comment 6 Ed Merks CLA 2013-01-08 04:11:35 EST 
Yes, it's gotten much much worse in recent days/weeks whereas it was working reasonably well before that.  Something must have changed...
Comment 7 Denis Roy CLA 2014-09-04 15:50:21 EDT 
I'm WONTFIX'ing my own bug.