Re: message-subject-re

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Michael Cook wrote:
> Frank Schmitt <Azzrael@rz-online.de> writes:
> 
>> Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org> writes:
>>
>>>Ick, does this mean that we're going to see people posting with Gnus
>>>using Sv: style subject lines and non-standard sig separators?
>>>
>>>I think some stuff _should_ be hardcoded.
>>
>> 100% acknowledge.
> 
> well, all i really wanted to do was suppress the "Re:".
> that seems reasonable, no?

It's certainly not in the category of "best practice" and, while I can't
find an RFC reference that mandates it for email, it's strongly
suggested by RFC822...

...and it does mean that it's not going to be possible for some email
clients that use the subject line to sort threads to tell that your
messages are part of one.

Er, /why/ do you want to do that?
        Daniel

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