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Thursday, April 13, 2000, 12:43:27 PM, you wrote:

Hello Alexander,

> The message headers should carry the following three fields:
> Message-ID: 
> In-Reply-To:
> References:
> (see this message headers for the example).

> When you compose a totally new message (i.e. not a reply), TB will 
> automatically add the unique
> Message-ID: header field. When somebody replies to this message, the reply 
> will have it's own unique Message-ID: _and_ the In-Reply-To: header, in which 
> the message-id of the message being replied to is contained. The next reply, 
> quite analogously, will have Message-Id: and In-Reply-To: and, on top of that, 
> References: field, where the ID of the first message goes to. The References: 
> field is cummulative, that is, it usually contains the IDs of all the messages of 
> the current thread, separated by the spaces (or at least a sufficiently large 
> number of IDs if the thread is long enough).

Thanks for the detailed information. After researching I found out
that the mailing list in question does not provide and In Reply
to:header information. This is why when I try to thread by reference
nothing happens.

Chuck Smith

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