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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 17:00:05
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
(...)
>> >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.

No, they are not. At least Gnus does the references like that. Many add some
trash, like Mutt:
In-Reply-To: <99051511361700.17002@beta>; from Sven Radej on Sun, May 16, (etc.)

Mail readers are not unified in this problematic, I am afraid.
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Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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