From: Eivind Tagseth (eivindt@multinet.no)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 02:23:38 CDT
* Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> [2004-06-03 13:41:19 -0700]:
> 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?
If the result is a discussion of the harmfulness of "Re: ", and one
participant thinks he's debating the harmfulness of "Re: " while the
other thinks the discussion is about "Sv: " then the confusion will be
seen by other readers as well. I guess this is something that could
be mentioned in USEAGE?
Eivind