From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 13:29:21 CDT
Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:
> * Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> [2004-06-03 13:41:19 -0700]:
>> 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.
Hm. If my news reader automatically translates all messages into Spanish
and occasionally gets words wrong, other readers are going to notice that
as well. I think it's a stretch to address it directly in the standard,
though.
On the other hand, I think that most people would not even consider the
case of a Subject header beginning with "Re: " that's actually intended to
discuss that term, so maybe it's worth a mention of that case just so that
people realize it exists when writing code.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>