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Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by chii on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:15AM (#27140812)
The protocol doesn't need to define any of those things. Just like HTTP doesn't define what goes on inside the viewport of the browser.
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Re:Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything by babypuncher on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:26PM (#27148281)
That is the problem. The protocol doesn't dictate how prior messages in a thread should be included or referenced. So any given thread is a hodgepodge of different solutions, making for an ugly, unreadable mess. Some clients try to clean this up, but it's basically an impossible task when you have no way of knowing what other clients will do.
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