From: Eivind Tagseth (eivindt@multinet.no)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 02:27:48 CDT
* Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> [2004-08-23 18:28:13 +0000]:
> What software actually needs to know is whether or not this article is
> intended to be threaded with other articles; and the presence of absence
> of a References-header tells you exactly that. Under all proposals that
> have been made.
Then why don't you suggest something like:
An article intended to be organized in a thread with other articles
MUST have a References-header containing the Message-Ids of those
articles (see section XXX for rules about truncating the References-header).
Forget about the followup-definition, remove the hopeless ambiguous MAY-
wording, and move on.
Eivind