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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mail headers: advice needed.
From:       Sven Radej <sven () lisa ! exp ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-06-18 14:52:54
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
(...)
>NNTP uses 'references' it like this:
>
> Msg 1:
>	Message-ID: Msg1
(...)
> 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 would be very difficult to add; Some references are like
<12332.456@foo.bar> but some are 
John Doe's message from "Fri Jun 18 16:55:17 CEST 1999"

Delimiter is space here, not "," Adding some gigantic parser for that isn't
worth it, at least not in 1.1 branch.
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Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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