Re: [PATCH] wip: Add forward-message-refs function.

Kurt Hackenberg wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 10:58 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
 ...
 |So In-Reply-To: is for a reply, but References: is for something else?
 |
 |Apparently that was true in 1982, when RFC 822[1] was published -- but 
 |that something else was not defined. Maybe it hadn't been invented yet.

There is some (even tight) relation in between netnews and email,
and there References: is .. references, it (5536) say

   A "followup" is an article containing a response to the contents of
   an earlier article, its "precursor".  Every followup includes a
   "References" header field identifying that precursor (but note that
   non-followup articles may also use a References header field).

So here we have an official use cases for "non-replies" in the
mindset of the IETF.  The email side has nothing to do with
"invention", but rather the opposite, with "mutilation" even.
Just saying.

--steffen
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