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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Ugly In-Reply-To?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:27:20 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo3b25xvjr.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mabwda2ym.fsf@jpl.org>

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> BTW, I'm not sure how the In-Reply-To header is actually used.
> If anything, I consider it is a useless header, so I've never
> been adding it to outgoing messages for years.

I've always assumed that some mail clients might use In-Reply-To instead
of References for constructing thread trees (though I have no actual
evidence one way or the other).

-miles
-- 
自らを空にして、心を開く時、道は開かれる




  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 12:51 Simon Josefsson
2007-05-10  1:21 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-05-10  2:27   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-05-10 19:55   ` Reiner Steib
2007-05-11  0:15     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-05-11  0:22       ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-05-11  0:28         ` Katsumi Yamaoka

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