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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <4167@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 May 89 12:40:07 GMT
References: <59.24690105@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> <3236@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <3236@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> We have been supporting it for
> 5 years to no end and it still can't be used to kill a chain of articles.

If that was the only purpose for the references line your argument would
make sense. But the far more common use of the references line is to
find the parent of an article... and for the vast majority of articles
this works.

Like I said, you're throwing the baby out with the metaphor.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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