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