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Re: negotiating with winners on Ebay, has anyone tried?
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:52:58 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Jamie Obrien writes:
[...]
I'm supposing (Don't do much server hands on stuff, wish i could
change that though) that you could just script in so that Message-ID
is equated to references. But this could have an effect on other parts
of the threading solution, and am not to sure about the implications
this could produce.

Yikes, no, can't do that.  The 'Message-ID' header specifies the message ID of
the message in which the header is found.  The 'References' header specifies
a list of all the message ID's of the messages upstream of the message which
the header is found.

All messages must contain a 'Message-ID' header and any message which is in
reply to another message should contain a 'References'[1] header.  Thus,
most messages actually contain both 'Message-ID' and 'References' headers.

The bug in Ben's email system is that his messages are coming in without
'References'[1] headers.  His email system is broken and it is not standards
compliant.

--Todd

[1] or, equivalently, in SMTP messages, the 'In-Reply-To' header.



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