HiJacking Threads Was: hostapd for Fedora 10

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 18:53:41 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> RFC 822:
>>
>>      4.6.2.  IN-REPLY-TO
>>
>>              The contents of this field identify  previous  correspon-
>>         dence  which this message answers.  Note that if message iden-
>>         tifiers are used in this  field,  they  must  use  the  msg-id
>>         specification format.
>>
>> Although the text doesn't explicitly use the term "threading", it's
>> pretty clear what is meant.
>>
> Hummm.....  It leaves quite a bit open to interpretation and it would
> only link one message with one reply.   I was looking for something more
> all encompassing.   But never mind....

Linking the reply to the original message is all that's required,
given that every message *must* include a standard Message-ID header.

poc




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