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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Matysiak <phoner.ding@blah.pl> writes:
>
> Maciej> i'm all for expanding it with localized prefixes (polish 'odp', swedish 'sv',
> Maciej> and so on).
>
> There are no such things as "localized prefixes".  Any software that
> puts anything other than "Re:" is broken.  "Re" is latin... it's not
> English.  There's no need to change it when going to a different
> language.
>
> And may the implementers in Redmond who thought otherwise burn in hell.

One small point: "re" indeed is latin, but it's use in email stems from
a custom that existed long before the days of email, in written
correspondence and reports, where the letters "re" abbreviated the
English word "regarding".  The correspondence of this abbreviation with
the latin word "re" is coincidental.

Besides that small point, I am in 100 percent agreement with everything
else you have expressed here.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com