Re: Back-references and USEAGE

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 08:26:50 CDT


In <20040603072051.GK7879@tagseth-trd.consultit.no> Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:

>* Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> [2004-06-01 09:29:18 +0000]:

>> Ah! In that case they have found an "apparent" back-reference. How about
>> the following:
>>
>> It would be wiser for any followup agents which detect apparent non-
>> standard back-references such as "Re(2): ", "Sv: ", etc. to refrain
>> from prepending anything further, but other attempts to mend that
>> problem are likely to do more harm than good.

>Fine by me.

OK, so that is now the official text, except that I have added one word
"can":

    It would be wiser for any followup agents which can detect apparent non-
    standard back-references such as "Re(2): ", "Sv: ", etc. to refrain
    from prepending anything further, but other attempts to mend that
    problem are likely to do more harm than good.

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