From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 15:41:19 CDT
Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:
> 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.
Aren't issues of local news reader display of articles pretty much outside
of what we have to worry about? If the news reader is going to try to
localize things, there will be issues like this, but as long as it doesn't
affect the Subject header as seen by other agents, does it really matter?
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>