From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 09:39:57 CST
In <200404011439.i31EdW9B030062@jefferson.patriot.net> "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel+gen@patriot.net> writes:
>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.
Thank you. The 2nd of those wordings is the current intention. And yes,
this whole thing needs clarification in USEAGE.
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