Re: message-shorten-references hardwired 21 references

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Jan 09 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> R> I'm quite sure that Gnus does the right thing.  See section
> R> "6.5. References" in [1].
>
>     It is permissible to not include the entire previous "References"
>     line if it is too long.  An attempt should be made to include a
>     reasonable number of backwards references.
>
> He just says "reasonable". 

And "if it is too long".

> I say that the newest 21 is the only way to keep threads intact,
> vs. the oldest 21, no?

You've misread the code.  It keeps the first MID and the last 20 MIDs:

ELISP> (setq rs-test "<id-1@invalid> <id-2@invalid> ...
  ... <id-89@invalid> <id-90@invalid>")

ELISP> (with-temp-buffer
	  (message-shorten-references 'References rs-test)
	  (buffer-string))
"References: <id-1@invalid> <id-71@invalid> <id-72@invalid> ...
         ... <id-88@invalid> <id-89@invalid> <id-90@invalid>"

Bye, Reiner.
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