[LINK] RFI: Gmail in Reference: header

[Adam Todd]

At 11:43 AM 23/06/2007, Roger Clarke wrote:
>But on examining the headers, I see this:
>>In-Reply-To: <467C6A95.7010806 at pacific.net.au>
>>References: <C2A033CD.CE7%stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au>
>>         <467A4920.6020803 at lannet.com.au>
>>         <61fgq6$350gdv at ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net>
>>         <467A819C.2090202 at stillhq.com>
>>         <61fgq6$356456 at ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net>
>>         <DF4202A3-15A3-4784-8F58-6F8AF96AD745 at gmail.com>           <<<====
>>         <467C3D34.9060305 at praxis.com.au> <467C55CB.6000208 at lannet.com.au>
>>         <467C6A95.7010806 at pacific.net.au>
>
>I haven't examined the email RFCs in order to find out what 
>'References' are used for.

Message thread.

This shows who has replied to the message in order of replies.

So basically in the thread that this message extends from, the fourth 
reply was from a gmail Link user :)

>Do the contents of the References: header generate a message (and 
>hence trap responses to gmail-originated threads in Google's 
>database), or is it just a comment field?

Filtering on headers for gmail will catch this :)