Re: [Announce] Mine game v1.17 for Emacs

[Per Persson <pp@swip.net>]

Wes Hardaker <Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch> writes:

> RS> Is it desirable to make both an In-reply-to and a References
> RS> referring to the same message?
> 
> Yes, I believe so...  Well...  actually I'm not possitive.  I'd ask
> Lars or read the RFCs to be sure.  I doubt it would hurt.  The
> references header is better (more information) than the in-reply-to
> and I don't know if there is any mailer that uses it in the first
> place.  I doubt it actually...  Gnus will recognize it, but uses
> references instead if found.  I suspect that all mailers that even
> look at the in-reply-to header will also look for the references
> header and use it instead.  

There's a few MUAs which uses both, one or none of those headers. I'd
go for having both added by GNUS. As everyone uses their own standard
I'd rather go for redundancy than lack of a neat feature.

--pp