Re: Back-references and USEAGE

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 10:01:03 CDT


In <40E2D701.7C60@xyzzy.claranet.de>, on 06/30/2004
   at 05:06 PM, Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> said:

>If you send followups with Subject: text (instead of the usual
>Subject: Re: text), then any text starting with "cmsg " could be a
>problem.

In that case, the original message would also have caused a problem.

>What about old mail agents

They're not news agents.

>How do you identify threads in this case,

You don't; articles in different threads can[1] have the same Subject.

[1] And, all too often, do.
 

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