From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14298 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: amu@mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ">" -vs- "Re:" -- is this guy crazy? Date: 25 Feb 1998 22:46:00 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153513 14136 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:38:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24516 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:50:18 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13943 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:48:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAH13959; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:47:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:46:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA13946 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:46:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 5362 invoked by uid 504); 26 Feb 1998 03:46:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5359 invoked from network); 26 Feb 1998 03:46:27 -0000 Original-Received: from tux.mit.edu (amu@18.239.1.134) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 1998 03:46:27 -0000 Original-Received: (from amu@localhost) by tux.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA27064; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:46:01 -0500 Original-To: SL Baur In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of 24 Feb 1998 17:01:29 -0500 Original-Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14298 SL Baur writes: > No. I've never seen it. There is a (broken) Microsoft mailer that > uses `FW: '. There is a (broken) Novell mailer that appends a > `-Reply'. There are various (broken) Unix mailers that use `Re[2]: ' > `Re[3]: ', etc. VM doesn't add anything by default. FWIW, another mailer (the headers don't seem to say which) uses 'RE> ', which is of course also borken. Anyway, whatever happened to being liberal in what one accepts? -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)