Re: Threading

[Matthew Guenther <mguenthe engr UVic CA>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ian Campbell wrote:

> 
> 
> > Also, AFAIK, the In-Reply-To header is not guaranteed to have anything of
> > value for threading like a message-id.  We should rely on the References
> > header instead, which has to contain threading information according to the
> > standard.  
> 
> According to my reading of what JWZ writes, References is defined the same
> as In-Reply-To (ie nothing useful) But the usenet standard deifnes
> References to contain useful information, and this is what a lot of mail
> readers choose to do, so it is worth looking at..
> 
> > 
> > I think we should aim for jwz's algorithm, it has been well tested and is
> > the best one I've ever seen from a usability standpoint (with the
> > placeholder messages especially)
> > 
> 
> I definately like the look of it.
> 
> Perhaps we should commit the CTree conversion stuff now (since it can't
> hurt...), but not put threading in until it is implemented properly.
>

Thats exactly what I was thinking... great minds think alike! :-)

> BTW, Does balsa put useful References and In-Reply-To headers in mail it
> sends?

It does, but I recently realized our References header is (slightly) broken.
Currently we put the message id of any message we reply to in both fields.
References however is supposed to also contain the References header of the
message being replied to.  I'll probably fix it when I get home tonight.

MBG

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