Message-Id: <199603222050.PAA23934@jekyll.piermont.com>
To: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Issues summary web page 
In-reply-to: Your message of "22 Mar 1996 20:43:14 GMT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:50:14 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


D. J. Bernstein writes:
> > Usenet has long had the capability of threaded newsreaders.  People
> > have long wanted this feature in e-mail.
> 
> That's true. It would be fine for 822bis to point out how wonderful
> Message-IDs are for this purpose. But this does not justify _universal_
> Message-IDs. There are many messages---notably DSNs---that are not
> useful targets of a References line.

Why aren't they? Lets say someone starts a mail exchange with the
postmaster and wants to refer back to the original message?

Adding message-ID's is so trivial that I don't understand what the
reason not to create them could be other than lazyness on the part of
an implementor.

Perry