Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA13049; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:55:57 -0400 X-Resent-To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:55:54 EDT Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU Received: from info.cren.net by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA13039; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:55:52 -0400 Received: from [192.52.179.12] (conklin-180c.cren.net [192.52.179.12]) by info.cren.net (8.6.12/8.6.4 (CREN)) with SMTP id PAA12726; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:55:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199508151955.PAA12726@info.cren.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:58:21 +0100 To: Jacob Palme , ietf-drums From: conklin@info.cren.net (Jim Conklin) Subject: Re: Does "References:" form threads? At 6:18 PM 8/15/95 +0200, Jacob Palme wrote: >A problem would occur in case we got a high proportion of e-mail >messages containing scientific papers and using the "References" >construct in e-mail headers for the kind of references you normally >have in scientific papers. > >This is certainly not practice in e-mail today, and I do not think >it will happen in the future either. More probable is that >scientific papers in the future will be sent in HTML format and contain >references in the form of hyperlinks in the text of the e-mail message. I agree that the use of the "References" header for listing literary references is highly unlikely. Jim