On 04/21/2010 09:34 AM, David Burns wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Larry Brower <la...@maxqe.com> wrote:
>   
>> Threading is normally down by the message headers and not by the
>> subject. Before saying stuff like "wow" and seeming so shocked and
>> amazed, perhaps you should RTFM ?
>>     
> So I did. I was again surprised to find that RFC822 never mentions
> threads. References are references, In-Reply-To is In-Reply-To and
> while a client is free to make additional assumptions, the assumptions
> don't become part of the standard, no matter how popular they become.
> Or maybe I'm looking at the wrong standard?
>
> I was expecting that
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Starting_a_New_Subject
> would make it clear that, whatever the standard may allow, this list
> assumes clients treat in-reply-to as equivalent to threads. Close, but
> no superglue. Looks to me - if you're one of the persons offended by
> hijacking, you know just what that page is talking about. However, if
> you're one of the unwashed (don't use 'real' client), trying to
> understand what the problem is, ....... not much help.
>
> Dave
>   
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt

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