From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 07:37:00 CST
In <4054E853.6080200@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> The more interesting point is whether to say anything about the case where
>> a user follows up to two or more predecessors (as John Stanley frequently
>> does in this thread). I posted a suggestion about this a few days back,
>> but nobody commented (essentially, I suggested that all you wanted was
>> that followups should occur later in the References header than any
>> precursor).
>The important thing is that the multiple message-ids of the multiple
>immediate predecessors should be in the In-Reply-To field.
The In-Reply-To header is not, and never has been, a part of Netnews.
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