Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id VAA10594; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 21:51:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.7); Wed, 8 Oct 1997 21:50:58 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id VAA10557; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 21:50:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from candle.brasslantern.com (zagzig.zanshin.com [206.155.48.241]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id VAA10541; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 21:50:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA11561; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:50:21 -0700 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <971008185020.ZM11560@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:50:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <6fVZIwN3cDB@faerber.muc.de> Comments: In reply to mail-std-list@faerber.muc.de (Claus Andre' Fa%rber) "Re: References definition" (Oct 8, 10:48am) References: <971006204244.ZM2193@candle.brasslantern.com> <3439A2D2.91024577@netscape.com> <6fVZIwN3cDB@faerber.muc.de> Reply-To: schaefer@nbn.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: mail-std-list@faerber.muc.de (Claus Andre' Fa%rber), drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: References definition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Oct 8, 10:48am, Claus Andre' Fa%rber wrote: > > When we define [MAIL]-References to match [NEWS]-References, we should > also: > > . mark "In-Reply-To:" as obsolescent (i.e. continue generating it in > addition to new-style "References", handle it if it's present and > is different from the last reference but expect messages where it > is completly missing); > > . introduce "See-Also:" as a replacement for the old style [MAIL]- > References. (No, that's not "new functionality": It's just kind of a > renaming from References.) I disagree with both of those statements. In-Reply-To should not change, and there's no use for the See-Also references (even if we could introduce the new header, which we can't).