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From: news1@texbell.swbt.com (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: 'in reference to' ID's
Message-ID: <268@texbell.swbt.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 01:38:41 GMT
References: <267@texbell.swbt.com>
Reply-To: hack@texbell.swbt.com (Greg Hackney)
Organization: texbell gateway, dallas
Lines: 22

In article <267@texbell.swbt.com>  writes:
>I have noticed a peculiarity in the ID numbers used by respondents to
>refer to a previous note.
> 
>Is this a peculiarity of the re-feed of items sent to texbell for
>posting to comp.sys.ncr?

Yes. The "Message-ID:" and "References:" fields are a feature of the
News 2.11 software. The former shows the origin and sequence of the
netnews article, and the latter provides a means for the netnews 
software to allow the reader to follow along on a certain topic.

You are on the NCR Tower Mailing List, rather than a netnews user, so
the fields are practically meaningless. When you send an article to the
mailing list, the fields are generated on my machine for conversion
to a netnews article.

When a netnews article comes in to my machine, it is converted to
a mail message to the mailing list. The header fields are not stripped.
--
Greg Hackney
hack@texbell.swbt.com