Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:10:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jfieber@indiana.edu Cc: terry@lambert.org, 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: <199703242110.OAA23473@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970324154535.2803I-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Mar 24, 97 04:11:39 pm
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> > 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 benefit is in having a date-order stamp on message *that came into* majordomo. Using a date-order stamp in conjunction with a subject line and "Re: " rules for subject contents would allow us to time-order thread messages and their responses. The point is to be able to thread based on timestamp and subject, not based on "Message-ID:" and "In-reply-to:". You can (perhaps) generate a message ID if there isn't one, but you can't genreate an "In-reply-to" if there isn't one. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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