From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Sat Oct 02 1999 - 12:16:35 CDT
Paul Overell quoted and wrote:
>> NOTE: "Re" is an abbreviation for the Latin "In re",
>> meaning "in the matter of", and not an abbreviation
>> of "Reference" is is sometimes erroneously supposed.
>
> This note belongs in a dictionary, not in our draft.
It doesn't even belong in a dictionary, because - as has
been discussed before - the explanation doesn't make sense.