Bill Janssen writes:

 > I think I'll finesse this issue with another (appropriate) layer of
 > indirection.

OK by me (can't bring myself to +1 on a thoughtful finesse. :)

 > > In a Lisp implementation of http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html I'm
 > > working on, I just use symbols named by the message IDs themselves;
 > 
 > Yes, that works well for a static persistent representation.
 > 
 > Lisp message threading?  What's that in aid of, if you can say?

The "VM" MUA for Emacs and XEmacs.

 > RFC 5256 mentions it, but I had to go back to 2822 to figure it out.

Tee-hee-hee!  The wild, wonderful world of RFCs: "You are in a twisty
maze of ABNF, all alike ...."
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