When a mail is sent, the threading sets In-Reply-To correctly, but adds a lot of References, which are presumably every previous message ID sent. I suspect that is not necessary.
NB In the following I have replaced 'cyclescape.org' with example.com.
Message-ID: <message-c8fc637026f88ea92e91@example.com>
In-Reply-To: <thread-293a901c70a55d327954@example.com>
References: <thread-293a901c70a55d327954@example.com>
<message-455f40a8aa2473643f26@example.com>
<message-c216ab4f307cc21b32ca@example.com>
<message-172bfe0b12f9cc6a12b0@example.com>
.... [Hundreds of similar lines]