On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > IMO the name can be changed, provided the draft explicitly outlaws use > of that name for other extensions and tells servers that they "may" > advertise thread=references in a transition period of unspecified > duration.
I strongly disagree with this suggestion, and will oppose it vigorously. It would cause tremendous problems for users of the most widely-deployed IMAP client. The reasons given are specious. The text "REFERENCES" is something that it sent over the wire. It has nothing to do with anything that a human would see. This working group has a deplorable history of saying "do what you want, we're not going to do any work to help you" then years later say "we want to tweak it now in ways that will break your installed base." In the case of THREAD=REFERENCES, it has has been over two years. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
