From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 13:28:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08731 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA08726 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:28:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA23473; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:10:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703242110.OAA23473@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine? To: jfieber@indiana.edu Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:10:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, langfod@dihelix.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Mar 24, 97 04:11:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > What I'm suggesting is that there needs to be a "X-List-ID:" or > > something similar for mailing lists, _added by the list server_. > > But X-List-ID won't get picked up by the user agent when (if) it > constructs an In-Reply-To field so it wouldn't really help in > thread construction. If anything is done by majordomo, adding a > genuine Message-ID would be the most useful. (Of course, only > add it if it doesn't already exist!) The benefit is in having a date-order stamp on message *that came into* majordomo. Using a date-order stamp in conjunction with a subject line and "Re: " rules for subject contents would allow us to time-order thread messages and their responses. The point is to be able to thread based on timestamp and subject, not based on "Message-ID:" and "In-reply-to:". You can (perhaps) generate a message ID if there isn't one, but you can't genreate an "In-reply-to" if there isn't one. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.