From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 13:21:37 CDT
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Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com):
>>>Since the Subject header is not defined to carry such information in a
>>>netnews environment, software SHOULD NOT attempt to interpret it. It's
>>>defined to be "unstructured", that's how software should interpret it.
>I know it has multiple meanings. Using it with two difference
>meanings in consecutive sentences in the same paragraph with no
>indication that its meaning has changed is at best unclear.
I used the word "interpret" with the same meaning both times. Perhaps
you were confused because the antecedant of "such information" is not the
same as the antecedant of the "it" in the second sentence.
>What I objected to is a sort of inverse: something that
>looks incorrect due to saying both "NOT X" and "X".
One statement refers to "such information", which refers to the use of
the Re: hack. The next statement refers to the Subject header as a whole.
Does that make it clear?
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