usenet about to die?

[Bill Jonas]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:26:53PM -0500, FoulDragon at aol.com wrote:
> -Machine-readable tags in message titles would allow a heirarchical structure 
> to be imposed (optionally, of course, with all nontagged messages shown in a 
> "unclassified" area)

We already have this -- Message-ID: and References:.  What Usenet client
are you using that doesn't show threading?  AFAIK, it's much more
popular in Usenet clients than it is in mail clients.  FWIW, I've
noticed that your mail client doesn't create a References: header --
not meant disrespectfully, but maybe it's an AOL thing?  (It's an
optional part of RFC2822, but it's implemented by probably two-thirds of
mail clients.)

-- 
Bill Jonas    *    bill at billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door.  You step
into the Road,  and if you don't keep your feet,  there  is  no knowing
where you might be swept off to."  --  Bilbo Baggins
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