Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Some possible fixes for the references line Message-ID: Date: 14 May 89 21:30:51 GMT References: <3222@looking.UUCP> <3243@looking.UUCP> <283@xdos.UUCP> <3248@looking.UUCP> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 19 About the ``root'' of a thread - it changes as articles get expired off the system. Thus, using the concept of a root is probably shakey. That said, there seems to be no reason why one couldn't limit the number of message ids listed in a reference line. You need more than one for redundancy's sake, but there is a point where you could stop. Simply climb up the tree to find the root. Speaking of trees, here is another monkey wrench. What should happen if someone wants to reply to two messages? Why not have the ability to list all the relavent messages in the references line? So much for trees. By the way, if you are looking to save space, I suggest starting with .signature files. But that's an argument for another day (far far away from now). -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]