From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 12:10:59 CDT
On 6/11/03 4:02 PM, John Stanley at <stanley@peak.org> wrote:
> J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com):
>
>> First and foremost -- an article with a Subject w/o "Re: " proclaims
>> itself as a "new" topic
>
> No, it doesn't. You might assume this, but nothing in the standards as
> they stand tells you this, and what you incorrectly infer from something
> is hardly a "proclamation". (Proof of point: is this message a "new
> subject", or is it simply the same topic without an Re: on the Subject?)
Did your mail client automatically remove the "Re: " for you? If not then,
it *is* a new "topic" -- you (a human) decided that the previous entry
wasn't "correct", and so you (a human) changed it.
That's what "new" means -- that a human entered it.
Uniqueness and/or appropriateness isn't relevant to whether it's "new", only
the fact that it came about because of human interaction, and isn't
something the software did on it's own.
-- J.B. Moreno