Re: and back-reference variants

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 07:58:26 CST


In <HvC4J4.4x0@clerew.man.ac.uk>, on 03/29/2004
   at 11:13 AM, "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> said:

>Which is precisely what my latest text does. Can I take it that you
>could live with that text?

Are you referring to one of these?

   2. The content of the Subject-header SHOULD by default be taken
      from that of the precursor's Subject-header, possibly preceded
      by the back-reference "Re: " (case sensitive), unless it already
      begins with such a "Re: ".

   2. The content of the Subject-header SHOULD by default be copied
      from that of the precursor's Subject-header, possibly preceded
      by the case sensitive string "Re: " (known as a "back-
      reference") unless it already begins with that string.

I can certainly live with those, with a preference for the second. I
would like to see some text in Usage urging that the authors of
reading agents take note of References.
 

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