From: Eivind Tagseth (eivindt@multinet.no)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 05:18:24 CDT
* Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov-usefor@isode.com> [2004-06-02 23:09:45 +0100]:
> IMHO, it is fine if a properly localized client replaces "Re: " with a
> local equivalent when displaying a received message (although any such
> client should have a mode to display the subject header as received).
> However, this can be done without leaking the translated version to the
> Internet. The hypothetical client would replace the translated version
> of "Re: " with "Re: " before sending a reply.
> Unfortunately, I have yet to see any client that handles this properly.
The problem with this (as Bruce have illustrated previously) is that a
subject of "Re: considered harmful" (i.e. an article claiming that
the back-reference "Re: " is considered harmful) would suddenly turn into
"Sv: considered harmful". It is a situation that is not very likely to
happen, but if USEFOR was discussed on usenet rather than e-mail, it
would have happened several times already. Thus such a translation
can not _reliably_ be done.
Eivind