From: J. B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 11:33:37 CST
On 2/2/04 5:27 AM, Bruce Lilly at <blilly@erols.com> wrote:
>> It does mean something -- except in the case of software mistakes, in text
>> groups it's absence means that a person manually entered the Subject. This
>> is useful information.
>
> The Subject field of this message does not begin with "Re: ". The Subject
> field was *NOT* entered manually.
It is also (A) a binary, and (B) mailed to a mailing list, not posted to a
newsgroup, (C) missing the References header, so it's the start of a new
thread, and finally (D) you're simply wrong, I assume this Subject
construction is done in order to show that it contains a file, if this
hadn't been the case, it'd just be a software mistake. If I give you the
name of a newsreader that doesn't include the References header, will you
then advocate removing it from the standard?
I could restate what it means so that it covers this case too, but given the
above I don't really see the need to do so -- people and software notice it,
people and software extract meaning from it, what you just did is no more
relevant to it's information content than someone using hipcrime to forge
addresses is to the information content of the From header.
-- J.B. Moreno