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From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
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To: ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: A gatewaying problem
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We have a problem with how to write a gateway between our e-mail
and computer conferencing system (KOM), and Internet mail and
Usenet News.

In our system, we have three kinds of links between messages:

In-Reply-To: A link which causes the two messages to be seen
             as belonging to the same conversation (thread),
             and which is mainly

References:  A link which does not cause the two messages
             to be seen as belonging to the same conversation.


Link name  Corresponding link type  Description
in KOM     in e-mail   in netnews

In-Reply-  In-Reply-   Does not     Link between two messages
To         To          exist        in a thread in personally
                                    addressed mail.

Comment    In-Reply-   References   Link between two messages
           To                       in a thread in a group
                                    discussion.

References References  Does not     Link between two messages
                       exist        which does not combine
                                    them into a thread.

The names of the links in KOM above are not final, the
system is not ready yet.

Our problem is that "References" seems to have different
meaning in Internet mail and in Usenet News. Since we have
both possibillities with different link types in KOM,
which of them should we give the name "References". And how
should we translate the link type which we above tentatively
has named "References" into Usenet News, since this usage
of the term "References" agrees with the terminology in e-mail
but not with the terminology in netnews.

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme