Re: piggybacking

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2006-07-04, jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@xxxxxxxxx penned:
Monique Y. Mudama <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks very much. Can Tak support your weight? I haven't given a
piggy back ride in a long time!
I know that "piggybacking" is when someone responds to another
poster, and a third person responds to the original post via the
second post, but ignores the second poster. (Hope that was clear.)
However, I didn't see any intermediary post in Sam's message - no
mention of Tak anywhere. How did you know Sam was skipping over
Tak's post? From my perspective, all I saw was a post from Sam
saying "sorry for piggybacking, but ..." but I could see who he was
piggybacking over.

I was about to answer this in complete technical detail, but then I
realized I didn't know the complete technical answer.

Short answer: my news client "threads" messages so that I see a
followup post indented under the post to which it was responding.
It's occasionally wrong, but mostly it's very clearly right. So when
I saw Sam's post indented under Tak's, it was a good bet that Sam had
followed up to Tak's message.

Correct. And to respond to your original response to my post, I wouldn't ask Tak to support my weight. Here in the US, we have a Constitutional provision about cruel and unusual punishment! ;)

If you can find a way to look at the complete headers for a message,
you will see a References: header. It lists the genealogy, I guess,
of the message -- the message's parent, grandparent, etc. I am just
now realizing that it is probably order-sensitive, which is probably
how the newsreader knows how to sort the messages.

Email, on the other hand, appears to typically have an In-Reply-To:
header. But I haven't looked at the RFCs (specs) for email and news
messages, so I don't know all the details of how they are supposed
to work.





--
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe
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