Identifying messages in a thread (was: Please keep the full address)

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:36:29 +1100
Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Those of us who identify the time wasters would also like to drop
> > the responses to their posts and changing the address makes this
> > impossible.
> 
> Not at all. AFAIK the messages from Google mail correctly include the
> 'In-Reply-To' field or the 'References' field in the message header.
> So, you can know by those fields whether a message is part of a thread
> you've previously identified.

I don't want to have to tag every thread.  I just want to *plonk*
certain posters.

Anyway, I'll live with Google's failings I guess.

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