Re: Mailing to several people.

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

"Steven L. Baur" <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> All existing references should be catenated.  Add all the collected
> message-ids to them.  Since this ties previously unconnected threads
> together it will make for some interesting later threading decisions.

I think this breaks all just about all RFCs ever written, which is a
plus.  :-)  

Actually, it doesn't break RFC822, which doesn't specify anything
about the References header except that it should "refer" to the mails
you reply to, so it would be ok.  However, I don't think any other
mail agent does anything like this, and there are practical
ramifications that I'd rather not think too much about.

Uhmn, I just don't know.  I'm leaning towards dropping the References
line completely and creating a Subject line without any "Re: ", with
all the different subjects separated by a " / ".  So one would start a
new thread by replying to several mails at once.

This won't break anything, but, on the other hand, it might not be
what one would want...

Either that, or just use the References from one of the messages --
the first, for instance.

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