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You mean like email and usenet's in-reply-to[1][2]?

Sure, not many, if any, clients handle an arbitrary list of message id's there, but it's clear[3] that's what it's for.

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822#section-4.6.2

[2]: https://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html

[3]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.4



Thanks for the links, I don't know anything about usenet beside the fact that it exists, and didn't even know it was possible for email too.

I'll search for examples of UI used for many in-reply-to, it seems interesting.




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