From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 12:57:38 CDT
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Per Abrahamsen wrote:
> I don't want to discard it. I just want to know whether it is a
> public or private reply. A mail reading agent doesn't have to be
> fancy to support that, in Gnus it would be a one-line change (just add
> PAM to the default value for the list of important headers).
Ok, I'll buy that.
>
> > However, why not just use the comments of the in-reply-to header?
> > Seems the natural place. Or throw in a "References:" header if you are
> > adding things to mail anyway.
>
> Well, basically I like the PAM solution because it is existing
> practice. A comment would not help, as comments are not structured.
> A references header would not help, as many reply agents already
> genererate references headers. However, including a Path header in
> the mail might do the trick, and could also be argued as existing
> practice (Pine uses the path header to distinguish between mail and
The in-reply-to header has room for comments, I believe. I appreciate
the sentiment of this header but am loathe to just add headers to
send one bit of information.