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SubjectRe: Linus is on a powertrip..
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> I don't know how good such software is, though, since
> mail doesn't have a references line, like news does, to make threading
> easy. It would be possible, I suppose, for a sophisticated program to
> examine the quoting in each mailing list message and figure out what
> each is a response to, and syntehsis references information that way, but
> I don't know if any of the mail --> news software is that smart.

Well mail has "In-reply-to".

Just as some news spam filters drop subject "Re:" without References,
some mail spam filters drop subject "Re:" without In-reply-to.

If you have a cache of In-reply-to headers and message ID's, you can then
build the References header.

David.


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