Standards for message threading?

greetings,
i'm curious if someone knows the answer to whether there are standards for how message threading is supposed to be done.
i keep my email mailboxes "organized by tread". this is invaluable to me in keep up with and following the email traffic at work. however, there is a slight problems with organizing by threads, which i consider a problem causes by people sending mail... it is not uncommon for people to reply to a message, then change the subject and make an entirely different message which has nothing to do with the message to which they originally replied. this causes email messages to get hidden under the wrong topic when messages are display by threads...
for the problem messages, i've read thru the message headers and see that the original message has a "message-id" and the later emails have a field "in-reply-to" which include the message id's of the original message. in apple's mail reader, will logically group everything together under 1 message thread in this case, as i would expect. but the difficult seems to be that people sending the messages don't know that they are screwing up things for mail readers that thread the messages...
there are several possible reasons why the wouldn't know. either the senders don't display messages in a threaded format, or their mail reader just uses another mechanism for threading messages (like subject or another message header).. i've check and the mail all seems to be coming from outlook.
my question is whether this there is an internet standard that states what the "in-reply-to" is supposed to be used for by mail readers. it this supposed to be used for "threading" messages? is this undefined and apple is just smart for using that field this way? do the standards state that threading should be done another way?
years ago, i begged for message threading since it always worked so well in newsreaders... i was very happy when message threading showed up in 10.3. i still can't imagine working in email without message threading, even if there are instances where it gets screwed up... so i won't stop using it... i'm just curious to know if there is a standard that defines how it should be done and what that standard is... i don't know where to look up the standard... i didn't find the info by google... if anyone has some pointers i'd appreciate it...
thanks for any info...

ok-
i had seen the 2nd link, but wasn't sure about how current it was since it has a date from years ago... i thought it was a good explanation of how it "should" work... but i wasn't sure if this was related to a standard or just a convention (meaning a convenient way that some people do it, but there isn't any agreement of how it should be done)...
i also realize that just because there is a standard, it doesn't mean that anyone has to comply with it... but it is useful to know, particularly since the discussion of standard comes up where i work...
thanks-
jeffery

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