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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:03:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
To: ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: Format of In-Reply-To and References
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Dave Barr <barr@math.psu.edu> writes:

> I'd like us to formally define "References" as in RFC 1036.  The majority
> of MUA's which do implement it do it this way anyway, and the desire
> for threading mail (and the difficulty doing so) has come up time and time
> again.

RFC 822 and RFC 1036 at present have two not identical definitions
of "References". Do you mean that RFC 822 should be changed, so as
to define "References" in the same way as RFC 1036 (but replacing
the word "Newsgroup" with "group" or "mailing list")?

If this is what you mean, I am all for it. I would very much like
the same heading field to have the same meaning as much as possible
in both Internet mail and Usenet News, because I believe that the
border between these two communities will become less and less
pronounced (independent on if you like this or not).

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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