<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Header_fields>
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html> Section 3.6.4
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt>
Note the In-Reply-To: header that contains the Message-ID: information from the
message being replied to.
A recursive train of those headers gives mail software, especially lists, a way
to make a collected display of threaded topics. Done that way there is no
confusion when someone corrects a spelling error in a subject line or adds
something like Re:, [G3-G5] or Antwort to a subject.
It's true that there are mail clients that don't follow the rules or have
other, but unique to a particular software company, techniques.
This message will refer to:
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
when it is sent.
2. a. "To steal from as if by hijacking." seems to me to fit the description of
the problem quite well.
It's probably better to accuse the poster who needs to learn the right way by
referring to a hijacking than to call him a thief.
Better would be to call his attention to the rules as stated above. And, if his
software doesn't do it for him, to propose a better client. It would be
interesting if all mail clients showed the In-Reply_To: headers that they are
creating before they allow pushing the SEND button. But that would be much too
confusing for the "average" user. Sigh.
It would be possible for list software to enforce the rules by simply
installing the old Subject: header from the message being replied to. At least
it would cause the hijackers to complain and that would be a teaching
opportunity. They would declare the list a hijacker for stealing their subject
text.
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