Re: References definitions and capabilities

From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 16:22:58 CDT


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> What you have described is a mixup of See-Also, In-Reply-To and References.
> The references header is used to indicate that a message belongs to the
> same discussion as another set of messages, in a threaded order. Why
> can't we keep it that simple?

Unfortunately, References already *is* used in the rather more generic way
in news. See-Also was a nice idea but years too late, and there's never
been significant use of In-Reply-To in news.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net




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