From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 08:55:36 CDT
In <40EB355A.60901@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>No, in the specific case of a response to a message with Message-ID, no
>References field, and two or more ids in an In-Reply-To field, there is no
>provision for generating a References field.
Exactly. That is the case in which a reply/followup has two precursors,
and RFC 2822 does not claim to cover that situation when constructing the
References-header. But that situation does not apply in the case of the
RFC 2046 message/partial issue we were looking at.
>RFC 2046 deals with message/partial MIME messages, not non-MIME messages.
>RFC 2822 deals with non-MIME messages, not MIME message/partial messages.
>They are two orthogonal types of messages.
But evidently RFC 2046 was trying to cash in on the current use of
References in Email and News (though that would be the RFC 822 version of
References). Unfortunately, it did not get it quite right.
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