Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:11:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, langfod@dihelix.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970324154535.2803I-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703242014.NAA23311@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > What I'm suggesting is that there needs to be a "X-List-ID:" or > something similar for mailing lists, _added by the list server_. But X-List-ID won't get picked up by the user agent when (if) it constructs an In-Reply-To field so it wouldn't really help in thread construction. If anything is done by majordomo, adding a genuine Message-ID would be the most useful. (Of course, only add it if it doesn't already exist!) > The major problem is that mailers which don't use the message ID > of the message being replied to in the generation of an "In-Response-To:" > or similar header. This is a problem, but (a) there isn't anything we can really do about it and (b) based on my analysis of headers, such mailers are responsible for a pretty small portion the messages. Pine and Elm alone account for over half the messages posted to questions. Thread retrieval will never be exact so long as humans are generating the discourse anyway. :) -john
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