On 04/21/2010 09:34 AM, David Burns wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Larry Brower <larry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Threading is normally down by the message headers and not by the >> subject. Before saying stuff like "wow" and seeming so shocked and >> amazed, perhaps you should RTFM ? >> > So I did. I was again surprised to find that RFC822 never mentions > threads. References are references, In-Reply-To is In-Reply-To and > while a client is free to make additional assumptions, the assumptions > don't become part of the standard, no matter how popular they become. > Or maybe I'm looking at the wrong standard? > > I was expecting that > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Starting_a_New_Subject > would make it clear that, whatever the standard may allow, this list > assumes clients treat in-reply-to as equivalent to threads. Close, but > no superglue. Looks to me - if you're one of the persons offended by > hijacking, you know just what that page is talking about. However, if > you're one of the unwashed (don't use 'real' client), trying to > understand what the problem is, ....... not much help. > > Dave > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt -- Dibble's First Law of Sociology: Some do, some don't. Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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