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Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 10:06:53 CDT
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> * Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> [2004-06-05 15:47:01 +0200]:
>
> > Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@multinet.no> writes:
> > Is there any other location than the very beginning of the Subject
> > header's content where this would occur? I don't see one. A reasonably
> > chosen subject with name would be:
> >
> > Subject: "Sv:" considered harmful
> > Subject: "Re:" considered harmful
> > Subject: "AW:" considered annoying
> >
> > In no case would the Re: constitute the very beginning of the header,
>
> Yes, such a subject would not cause problems (unless the suggestion of defining
> any string without spaces ending with a colon at the start of the subject was
> followed).
It was my thought, and applied only to the decision to prefix "Re:" or
not. My feeling is that false positives are far better than false
negatives, and I suggested that there be a blank after the colon in order
to match. Given that, the cases above would not match and might get
"Re:" prepended. If the quotes are removed "Re:" would not be prepended. I
think that's "not incorrect" behaviour.
>
> > The other question is if a newsreader should localize headers,
> > particularly if the headers are editable in raw form. I believe it
> > shouldn't or it should at least offer an option (button, whatever) in a
> > PROMINENT location to show the headers as they are going to be sent so
> > the skilled user can check what his newsreader does, without requiring
> > support or test postings.
>
> No, I agree, a newsreader should not localize the content of an unstructured
> header. This illustrates the problems of enforcing semi-structure into
> unstructured content.
Sounds like a valid problem with localizing headers, are there actual
examples of clients which do that?
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