From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 09:40:02 CDT
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1040707151309.27105R-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>I should have been more precise about this... The applications I'm
>thinking of assign their own syntax and semantics to the Subject header in
>some situations, using it for commands to the software. They would appear
>to work fine, and are in active use today, and I've never heard of anyone
>accusing them of violating standards.
Nevertheless, I still think that having agents reading subject headers in
order to institute some semantic action is a Bad Thing, and USEAGE says as
much. With hindsight, that is true or "Re: " as well.
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