Re: Back-references and USEAGE

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 05 2004 - 14:58:55 CDT


In <87aczj18ji.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>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.

But there is no reason to write any code differently, even if you are
aware of that case. However, there is a mention in USEAGE that "Re: "
"might have been deliberately placed there by a poster" and I would have
thought that was sufficient (that is the place from which that word
"perverse" was removed).

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