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Chapter 5 — How Gmail Works
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216.239.057.105.00080-192.168.016.051.61753:
id=q_10187696869432e6_1>
On 18 Jan 2005, at 20:59, Ben
Hammersley wrote:

> And this is a reply
back
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:05:17
+0100, Ben Hammersley
> < top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\”
href=\”mailto:ben@benhammersley.com\”>ben@benhammersley.com >> wrote:
>> 3rd! THREE!
THIRD!
>>
>>

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As you can deduce, th does indeed stand for thread. In Gmail, it turns out, you do
not just retrieve single messages. Rather, you retrieve the requested message and
also the entire set of headers for the rest of the messages in the thread. You can see