From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 12:07:09 CDT
Kai Henningsen wrote:
>>I'm not suggesting use of "Sv: ", I'm suggesting that all of the subject
>>hacks should be removed from the documents. If a UA author wants to
>>*display* "Re: " or some localized variant for the subject when a message
>>contains a References or In-Reply-To field, I don't care, but it is
>>redundant and contrary to Subject being *unstructured* to require that
>>Subject be *structured* with specific content.
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> It is, however, an important part of interoperation in Usenet. This is not
> something you can discuss away.
If you wish to demonstrate an effect on interoperability, something more
than hand-waving will be required. You cannot demonstrate such an effect
by attempting to stifle discussion.
> (And, for that matter, MIME encoded words are contrary to the Subject
> being unstructured in exactly the same way.)
That's simply wrong. MIME does not *require* prepending (or any other
operation) to any unstructured field. Indeed, it does not *require* use
of encoded-words in Subject -- it merely provided a standardized
mechanism for incorporating content which otherwise cannot be handled
in an unstructured header field (ASCII NUL, lone ASCII CR or LF, etc.),
as well as providing a standardized mechanism for indicating charset
and language.