Python mailing list vs. References: (was Re: My quarterly question on Design by Contract in Python...)

[Bill Janssen]

Excerpts from ext.python: 13-May-99 Re: Python mailing list vs... Aahz
Maruch at netcom.com (1294)

> Okay, so the Mailman software should copy In-Reply-To: to References: if
> References: does not exist.  That seems like a simple patch.

Lots of mailers put lots of junk in the In-Reply-To field.  You might
want to qualify it before just copying it -- see that it matches the
specification of a message-id, for example.

Bill