At 11:43 AM -0800 12/9/12, S Moonesamy wrote:
Dave Cridland mentioned RFC 3676 [3]. He pointed out that it
primarily useful in simple replies rather than quoting.
Just to clarify: Dave didn't say that RFC 3676 is not useful for
quoting (indeed, quoting is one of it's main points). Dave pointed
out that RFC 3676 didn't include a mechanism to attribute each quote
to a specific author, which is true. Dave also pointed out that this
attribution could in theory be accomplished by matching the quote
level (which is included) to the 'References:' chain, although this
would be fragile in practice because so few clients correctly
implement 'References:'.
One of the problem he encounters is a lack of in-reply-to or
references fields that I can use for in-thread navigation.
Used for threading in general, not in-thread navigation (I'm not sure
I understand the difference, but to me, threading is the ability to
group together messages in a logical thread or discussion, while
in-thread navigation would be the ability to jump around within a
thread).
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Randall Gellens
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