From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 05:57:17 CST
In <4020F146.3020003@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>That's one reason not to put "Re:" in the protocol; it leads to an
>endless stream of similar hacks -- "cmsg", "FW", "Fwd", "Auto", etc. in
>addition to the ones you cite.
On the contrary. It singles out "Re: " for special attention, and thereby
establishes that followup agents which insert "cmsg", "FW", "Fwd", "Auto",
etc (and more importantly "Re: Re: " and "Re^2: "), except under the
explicit direction of the poster, are non-compliant. It means that "Re: "
is the ONLY thing that can be inserted automatically.
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