From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 08:51:28 CDT
In <20040824072748.GD9517@tagseth-trd.consultit.no> Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:
>* 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).
If you will add that "articles intended to be organized ..." includes
"followups", then I might buy that. It is essentially one of the
alternative wordings I posted yesterday.
OTOH, some people (Seth?) might be unhappy at using "MUST" wording in
relation to things that were merely "intended".
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