From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 21:42:00 CST
Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
> John, is <Pine.LNX.4.53.0404011048180.30055@a.shell.peak.org>
> your idea of a April Fool's joke?
>
> I notice your message had no "Re:" in the Subject, and no References header.
So what? Neither is a requirement for a mailing list message.
> But it quoted from Charles' <200403301804.i2UI4Xv18100@clerew.man.ac.uk>
>
> I have to laugh that this undermines arguments I see you have made.
No, it does not.
> BTW, how many "decades old" is your e-mail client? Or did some gateway
> strip that header? Or are you just being a jerk^H^H^H^H^H^H^H exasperating
> on purpose.
>
> Going back to lurking now...
If you had been reading the mailing list messages with any modicum
of care, you would have noted one or more of at least four fairly
recent references to the fact that John reads and replies to messages
via the mailing list archive web site. And a cursory examination
of that web site reveals that the mailto URIs associated with the
"Reply" links do not include References fields. A closer examination
reveals that the mailto URIs also botch fields (specifying "reply-to"
where "in-reply-to" should be used), but that's another matter.