From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 13:18:01 CDT
In <4120F9BC.4000209@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Message-id identify messages (big surprise, right?). And "news" and
>"mail" do not differ in this respect; message-ids and the References
>header field date back at least to RFC 724 (which predates Usenet by
>years), and have continued through RFCs 733 and 822 to 2822. Now
>exactly which part of RFC 2822 do you believe is not satisfactory
>w.r.t. the References header field?
Yes, but the References-header in RFC 2822 changed quite a lot since those
earlier RFCs. Indeed, it has more of less caught up with what had become
standard practice in Netnews (but, sadly, many MUAs have not caught up
with RFC 2822 yet).
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