From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 10:56:41 CDT
Henry Spencer wrote:
> 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.
See-Also was defined to use message-ids when URLs were becoming more
common. It could be redefined as a reference pair, being either a
message-id or a URL, followed by an optional comment, but please let's
not do that now.
Lack of use of In-Reply-To is unfortunate, because unlike references it
has no history of being used for anything other than a human generated
reply. One might say it has no history of being used, period, if one
were looking to take a cheap shot ;-)
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-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
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