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will someone build a threaded aggregator already?!

No shit.

The problem is, there's no good way to encode this-is-in-reply-to in RSS. I am subscribed to and lurk on the atom-syntax mailing list, and at one point, someone wrote a proposal for a Parent Link. Something that would look like:

<link rel="in-reply-to" type="application/atom+xml"
href="tag:jeremy.zawodny.com,2004:1.3198"/>

I think it might have gotten shot down, though. Reading through that mailing list archive, people suggested replacements. But, then, there seems to have been more posts regarding it. It's hard to say: between the Wiki and the mailing list, I have a hard time finding definitive "this is the conclusive consensus/status of this proposal/idea." On the PaceLinkParent page, it says that the status is "Open"; so I imagine they are still discussing it.

The equivalent of the In-Reply-To: email header is sorely needed. That is for sure. Then, aggregator authors can implement threaded views.

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