From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 05:27:19 CST
In <200403262252.i2QMq3en024731@jefferson.patriot.net> "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel+gen@patriot.net> writes:
>In <Hv4rK5.28M@clerew.man.ac.uk>, on 03/25/2004
> at 11:50 AM, "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> said:
>>No, it says *some* reading agents, specifically that subset of all
>>reading agents which choose to "use the Subject-header to enable a
>>simple form of thread sorting". And the agents within that subset do
>>"need" to recognize the back reference,
>No.
>>otherwise their (so-called) threading does not work properly.
>In what way doesn't it work? You sort on subject and date, and the
>original article precedes the followups.
Yes, but it might interpolate all sorts of unrelated articles in between.
In practice, all known reading agents that take the Subject into account
DO detect (and ignore) a leading "Re: ".
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