From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4204 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing to several people. Date: 01 Dec 1995 04:57:41 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <9511241133.AA18431@sun-shine.hk-r.se> <199511292032.MAA12792@miranova.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144985 28851 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA29908 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 20:42:49 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 04:57:43 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 04:57:42 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: "Steven L. Baur"'s message of Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:32:45 -0800 Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4204 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4204 "Steven L. Baur" 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. -- Home is where the cat is.