I would have to with Jerry. When one makes it too easy to reply, the relevance of the messages to the thread would suffer. I believe this was mentioned somewhere on Phil's website.
I think it would be most effective set the References:, In-Reply_to and Message-ID accordingly. Isn't the Message-ID set by the MTA? wouldn't a patch to the MTA be needed to put that back (or generated eternally to the MTA) in the bboard so replies can be threaded? properly?