On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > I'm not interested in breaking THREAD=REFERENCES. I'm merely saying that if > the current THREAD=REFERENCES is broken, we shouldn't publish it as a > standards-track RFC.
I claim that the current THREAD=REFERENCES is not broken, and should be published as a standards-track RFC. That does not preclude other threading algorithms, as anticipated by the THREAD specification, will happen. All threading is going to be a compromise. For better or worse, this is the compromise that we have, and it generally works quite well. An attempt to push some other compromise in lieu of the one that is already wide will not make the situation better. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
