From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43242 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: references on multiple message followup Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:26:50 +1000 Organization: Bah Humbug Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87sn7u8iph.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87lmdpj92f.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178366 16528 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:32:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14390 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2002 00:30:08 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 00:30:08 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16e3Zr-0005tk-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:28:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:28:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA29907 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:28:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 14224 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2002 00:28:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14219 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2002 00:28:25 -0000 Original-Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (203.25.148.40) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 00:28:25 -0000 Original-Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g1M0SLXt010231 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:28:22 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp45.dyn228.pacific.net.au [203.143.228.45]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id LAA19279 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:28:19 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 16e3Y4-0003Ux-00; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:26:52 +1000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:27:27 -0500") Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43242 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43242 Karl Kleinpaste 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.