From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 13:58:28 CDT
In <3CFAE344.292C@xyzzy.claranet.de> Frank.Ellermann@t-online.de (Frank Ellermann) writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
> [5.4.1 Re: new subject (was: old subject)]
>> It is not usual for followup agents to strip (was: ...) from
>> the Subject line AFAIAA, though I have no objection if some
>> agent chooses to do it.
>You could simply add another example line to document this...
> Subject: Re: Godwin's law
>...then it's obvious for anybody, that stripping (was: ...) is
>at least not incorrect. Even minor details in RfC 1036 and
>1036bis caused endless threads in some newsgroups, it's better
>to avoid any ambiguity now. (Of course it's not "ambiguous"
>and only an example, but these endless debates ignore simple
>facts whenever possible. ;-)
Good idea. Done it.
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