Re: References in forwarded messages

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 17:31 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:

>So it's seems like there will be many situations where where at least
>some of the recipients do have at least some of the referenced messages
>already in their mailbox -- and having the forwarded message tie
>into the existing thread could be useful to those recipients.)

If you want that, then why not send a reply, with the third person 
added as a recipient?

If forwarded messages included In-Reply-To: and References:, then how 
would they be substantially different from replies? Why have two 
commands that do approximately the same thing?