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    > I don't think that is possible.  How could a program tell that the
    > message you sent, which wasn't sent as a reply to mine, actually
    > responded to the issue?  That would take real AI.

    Well, your system could easily tell that it's a reply to *his* message.

It could tell that, but that doesn't mean it responds to what I asked
for in my message.  It might have been a request for more information,
for instance.