From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 06:12:47 CST
In <3C7ED9E2.4E76207@cisco.com> Martin Djernaes <djernaes@cisco.com> writes:
>Hi,
>I'm digging into a can of worms, I think, but anyway.
>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: ".
This was last discussed on tbis list a long time ago. The thinking was
that there is already software out there that tries to parse this "Re: "
for various assorted purposes, hence the need to standardize it.
Also note that RFC 2822 also includes mention of the fact that "Re" is a
Latin abbreviation.
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