From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 05 2004 - 14:26:54 CDT
In <20040604072338.GP7879@tagseth-trd.consultit.no> Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:
>* 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?
But I don't think it could ever happen. Not unless some reading agents
tries to translate the Subject into the local language. We discussed that
before and, whereas a reading agent MIGHT do that, I think we both agreed
it would be unwise, and certainly an agent that let the translated version
back out onto Usenet would be severely broken.
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