From: Nick Boalch (n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 10:34:22 CST
Section 3.2.1.5 mandates that "Followup agents SHOULD trim message identifiers
out of a References-header" where the number of message identifiers exceeds
21. This seems to be an inconsistency with [USEFOR] section 8.6.4, which
merely says that "Followup agents MAY trim References-headers which have grown
to excessive length".
Also in this section, it's not clear to me whether the suggested trimming
behaviour ("removing sufficient identifiers starting with the second so as to
bring the total down to 21") is intended to work from the beginning or end of
the References-header: i.e. does 'the second identifier' refer to the second
identifier reading the References-header left-to-right (which would be the
parent message of the immediate message being followed up) or the second
identifier reading right-to-left (which would be the second message in the
thread). Should this be clarified, or am I just dull?
Regards,
N.
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