From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 15:13:47 CST
On 2 Mar 2002, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> > ...I read that you want to "forbid"
> > non "latin" versions of the prefix "Re: ".
> > Could you please explaing the reason for this?
>
> Because this is not a pretty sight:
> Re: SV: Re: Odp: SV: Some subject line
Also, if there is *one standard* way of spelling "Re: ", then it can be
recognized automatically by newsreaders (which can translate it to the
local equivalent for display and followup editing). The main reason for
mentioning it in a standard at all is to make it machine-recognizable.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net