From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.saynotospam.au>
Subject: Re: references on multiple message followup
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:26:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sn7u8iph.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxkeljhvt6o.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com> (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:27:27 -0500")
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
>
> The problem is that References is, in principle, a strict linear
> parentage list from head to tail of a thread. Trying to use
> References with multiple, immediately-referring message-ids creates
> something of a lattice, abandoning the linear interpretation.
I'd wondered about that, without knowing what the standards say.
Taking the references just from the last message marked would be
enough for the common uses I can envisage.
> In any event, complicating matters is the problem of how one would
> thread a message in a summary display, based on linear References
> interpretation, that had lattice-like References content.
I guess if you draw together two strands by referring to both then
there's a question of under which one that message should come out.
Yes, that'd be a bit ugly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-22 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-20 0:22 Kevin Ryde
2002-02-20 1:27 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-02-20 1:27 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-02-22 0:26 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2002-02-22 0:26 ` Kevin Ryde
2002-02-20 6:04 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-02-20 6:04 ` Wes Hardaker
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2002-02-20 0:22 Kevin Ryde
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