Thread:Feedback/ Feature request Typed references/Gmaxwell (2)

I think he's suggesting having a formal field displayed at the thread start (or message start) where you can list all the other relevant materials and locations of discussion just as you can do with message reference headers on usenet. It doesn't half to be the same as multihoming, because you could point to another location without also appearing there... might also be useful to reference mailing lists, webpages, etc.

The most obvious way to do this in liquid threads would be to use the power of message modification to insert these pointers in the thread starting message. Unfortunately the thread starting message is "software signed" so you can't add things like that without making it look like it was the thread starter's authorship. In IRC I (or someone else?) had suggested the ability to add (an) unattributed section(s) to a thread. i.e. a per thread header... This would be an example use case where an unattributed per-thread header could be used to achieve some additional functionality (listing all the relevant reference materials and locations of discussion for a thread in a centralized place.)