Re: [OT] Broken threading

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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> I'd say the bug is the absence of reference headers. Either Ada-France's
> gateway removes them or else Randy's Outlook Express supports reference
> headers for Usenet but not for email. Both seem like rather odd behaviour.

I doubt that any mail client would include any old headers in reply e-mail,
as replies are newly created messages. The headers belong to the old
message; the new message has new headers appropriate for it. I'm pretty sure
that Outlook discards all headers, even on forwards.

Indeed, I'd never even realized that RFC-822 even defines reference headers
(they're so rarely used; the Ada-France messages do have them, but that's
the first time I've seen them in any mail - and I look at a lot of mail
headers). I doubt that it would make sense to copy those headers in e-mail,
unless the client knows what they are for (as in a newsreader). (How would
you know if they apply to the reply? How do you know what to add to them?
The contents of the reference header is not standardized for mail.)

                            Randy.