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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mail headers: advice needed.
From:       Petter Reinholdtsen <pere () hungry ! com>
Date:       1999-06-18 14:13:06
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> My interpretation would be that you put a single msg-id of the
> message you respond to in the IN-REPLY-TO header and that you add
> the IN-REPLY-TO header of the msg you reply to to the REFERENCES
> header of the msg you reply to and put these in the REFERENCES
> header.

NNTP uses 'references' it like this:

 Msg 1:
	Message-ID: Msg1

 Msg 2:
	Message-ID: Msg2
	In-Reply-To: Msg1
	References: Msg1

 Msg 3:
	Message-ID: Msg3
	In-Reply-To: Msg2
	References: Msg1, Msg2

 Msg n:
	Message-ID: Msgn
	In-Reply-To: Msg(n-1)
	References: Msg1, Msg(n-3), Msg(n-2), Msg(n-1)

The important thing to notice is that References should always contant
the id of message number one, and the program might skip as many
references between the first and the previous message, if the header
starts to get large.

> This makes it easy to keep related messages together. (E.g. build a
> thread).  But this could also make mails huge.

This problem is solved if one skips some references.
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