[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Right, but if I don't have any of that thread in my mailbox, then 
> regardless of whether my client can handle threading, there's nothing 
> there for it to relate the new message to.

Yes.

Of course, people don't have to save every message in order for these
headers to be useful:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14148.html

Note the message thread at the bottom of this web-page.  Without
"References:" and "In-Reply-To", the mailing list archive couldn't
have associated all of these messages (notice that the "Subject" field
changed multiple times).


Again, I say:  email clients that don't send proper headers and don't
know how to deal with proper headers are seriously lacking in basic
functionality.

--kevin
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Cetacean Networks, Inc.                       |   Give me a decent UNIX
Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)                        |  and I can move the world
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