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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mail headers: advice needed.
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-06-22 10:22:40
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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> 
> On 19-Jun-99 Sven Radej wrote:
> > Aha, so you keep the reference of first letter in thread:
> > Message-ID: <msgid[n]>
> > In-Reply-To: <msgid[n-1]>
> > References: <msgid[1]> <msgidn[n-2]> <msgid[n-1]>
> 
> If you want. It's not mandatory. It's only useful as sometimes you'll have
> missed some messages (or they haven't arrived yet) so as the first reference is
> quite far back, it's more likely you'll have that original.
> 
> > That requires that all mail readers keep that order in references. Do they?
> 
> I can't see why they'd reorder them. That would be foolish.

Reordering references is not only foolish, it's non-RFC and i'd call it
evil :-)
 
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