Re: A mailing list protocol

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 11:43 AM -0800 12/9/12, S Moonesamy wrote:

>  Dave Cridland mentioned RFC 3676 [3].  He pointed out that it 
> primarily useful in simple replies rather than quoting.

Just to clarify: Dave didn't say that RFC 3676 is not useful for 
quoting (indeed, quoting is one of it's main points).  Dave pointed 
out that RFC 3676 didn't include a mechanism to attribute each quote 
to a specific author, which is true.  Dave also pointed out that this 
attribution could in theory be accomplished by matching the quote 
level (which is included) to the 'References:' chain, although this 
would be fragile in practice because so few clients correctly 
implement 'References:'.

>  One of the problem he encounters is a lack of in-reply-to or 
> references fields that I can use for in-thread navigation.

Used for threading in general, not in-thread navigation (I'm not sure 
I understand the difference, but to me, threading is the ability to 
group together messages in a logical thread or discussion, while 
in-thread navigation would be the ability to jump around within a 
thread).

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Randall Gellens
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