From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 20:58:52 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Indeed, which is more or less the idea behind introducing the possibility
> as widely as we can. Many possible applications have been discussed (and
> mayy more doubtless will be), even though only two have made it into the
> present draft.
[...]
> As to why "_now_", it is because we are doing it now for our own news
> headers, which provides a convenient opportunity to consider it more
> widely.
This WG does not have the authority to do that to headers defined
for email.
> The headers we are talking about are:
>
> Date
> Message-ID
> Sender
> Keywords
> References
> Supersedes
>
> Since those are the ones that occur in RFC 2822 (except Supersedes, which
> is really a news header that mail has "borrowed").
Supersedes was officially defined in RFC 2156, January 1998, as a
modification of "Obsoletes" used in RFC 1327 (May 1992). There is
no mention of news in 2156, and there is no definition of
Supersedes in RFC 1036. What is the source of your claim?
[...]
> BTW, can someone tell me whether "References" is an email header that was
> adopted by news, or a news header that was adopted by email. Whichever, it
> must have been a long time ago.
References is in 822, which 1036 uses as the baseline message format.
It's also in RFC 733, 822's predecessor. And in 724 before that. I
don't know whether or not it was in RFC 680, but it was not in 561.