Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Also, shouldn't Gnus generate the In-Reply-To header in the message
>> buffer when you press R or F?  The References: header is generated.
>> Possibly neither should be generated though (and people that want to
>> see it can use `message-generate-headers-first').  Opinions?
>
> IIUC, the In-Reply-To header contains a pointer to just one message,
> whereas the References header contains pointers to many messages.
> With the multiple messages, Gnus can fill gaps in the threading.  I
> like the filling-gaps feature.
>
> Unless I misunderstood something, I vote for keeping References.

I wasn't clear -- I wanted to remove Lines: completely for mail, but
the In-Reply-To/References question was only if they were to be
displayed in the message buffer by default.  Currently, References: is
shown in the message buffer when you press F but In-Reply-To: is not,
which is rather confusing.  Both headers will be present in the sent
message.  I wanted to make the behaviour the same, either both
In-Reply-To and References: are shown when you press F or they are not
shown.  They should both still be added to outgoing mail, of course.

The reason is that I often have a habit of pressing R or F and then
removing the References: line and change Subject in order to start a
new thread.  This won't work well since In-Reply-To: is automatically
added when the message is sent though.  Either both headers should be
shown by default, or none and I will have to use
`message-generate-headers-first'.

I vote for not showing References: by default.  People that care about
the header (very few I think) can frob m-g-h-f.  What do you think?