From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 09:35:41 CST
Martin Djernaes said:
> In section 5.4 of the draft you write about the subject field, and how to
> modify this one when replying to a mail. I read that you want to "forbid"
> non "latin" versions of the prefix "Re: ".
>
> Could you please explaing the reason for this? I didn't find (enough)
> information about this in the archive.
In theory you should be able to tell the start of a thread from a
continuation article by looking for a References header. However, in
practice such headers are often missing. By reserving the "Re: " prefix for
followups, the draft provides some useful redundancy, redundancy that
newsreader software already takes advantage of.
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