On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Sven Radej wrote:

> 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"

Hm? References are message ID's including the angle brackets, nothing
else.

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