On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:30:23PM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> 
> The processing time was fast enough that I can do this kind of link analysis
> for all messages, I believe.  However, beyond the start of a thread, it
> seems less safe to assume that messages are replies to those that preceded
> them by 1-4 messages, as above.
> 

Do you use the In-Reply-To: field to do the linking? Not all mailers set
it correctly or at all, but (since I use Mutt which is a great threaded
mail reader) I noticed that a large number of the posts to Brin-L do
have them set correctly, at a guess at least 75%.

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