Roman Katzer wrote...

>Does anyone know how these IDs are being generated?

Many email clients offer a choice of letting the server generate the 
ID or having it generated by the client. The methods used to 
generate it are many and varied.

>As far as other mail clients go, it seems that few can even set references
>correctly (or some people are just too stupid to operate their mail
>program): In a DSP mailing list I'm on I can't really thread by references
>since 9 out of 10 postings haven't got references set.

Most clients do this correctly, but the ones that don't tend to be in 
wide use, unfortunately.

-- 
John De Hoog 
http://dehoog.org



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