[sarex] "Possible follow-ups" in web archives

[Paul Williamson <kb5mu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Luc Leblanc (VE2DWE) wrote:
>As i read on the following INTERNATIONAL and publicly available web 
>site, Can you Paul explain to me and all
>the AMSAT members the meaning of <Possible follow-up(s)>  in the 
>following SAREX archive.

I assume you're referring to the archives at 
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/index.html. Those archives 
are created automatically by a program called MHONARC.

"<Possible follow-up(s)>" simply means that the archiving software is 
unsure about whether the messages listed below that notation are 
really part of the same "thread" of discussion as the ones above. It 
thinks they are, because the Subject is the same or very similar, but 
it can't confirm it using other header fields. Since some email 
software fills in those other fields, and some does not, the 
capability to split messages up into conversation threads is 
unreliable.

73  -Paul
kb5mu@amsat.org
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