From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 11:29:09 CDT
On 6/10/03 2:25 AM, Boris 'pi' Piwinger at <3.14@logic.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Let me repeat: The subject is used for various purposes.
A post in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent yesterday was from someone
who kills all non-watched articles -- the kill file entry is overridden by
the Watch command, so he kills on "Re: ", this keeps even the busiest group
down to just those topics he finds interesting.
-snip-
> Other things like the very funny joke, not!, in this subject are not helpful
> and don't show up in real life (at least after applying an appropriate kill
> file).
Agreed.
I still haven't seen a good reason as to why the back-reference shouldn't be
part of the syntax -- theoretically it differs from mail, but given that in
practice the main place I see mail not following this convention is with
spam ("Re: your order", "Re: your question", "Re: here is a good story", all
caught within the last couple of days by my filter that looks for a leading
"Re: " but no References or In-Reply-To), I think the difference is more
theoretical than actual.
-- J.B. Moreno