From: Eivind Tagseth (eivindt@multinet.no)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 02:31:46 CDT
* Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> [2004-08-23 15:31:03 +0000]:
> It is *advice* to certain reading agents (those that choose to make use of
> it, since it is not obligatory) as to how to present/display that article.
> In particular, the article in question should (l.c. "should") be
> presented/displayed *after* all those listed in the References-header;
> moreover, those listed later in the References-header should be
> presented/displayed after those listed earlier.
>
> No, that is not a wording ready to plug into our draft, but a wording
> satisfying that aim could surely be written. Note that there is no such
> wording in the present draft because there is a process described under
> "Duties of a followup agent" which achieves the required effect, but if we
> are going to use References-headers not generated by followup agents, then
> some "meaning" wording ought to be written. Note that RFC 2822 also
> describes the meaning of the References-header by giving a process for
> constructing it.
I think such a section would be nice. Some people may even write newsreaders
without followup-agent functionality (e.g. the gmane web service).
Eivind