From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 14:39:47 CST
> 3. I doubt it is yet a consensus, since those on my right (Seth in
> particular) still want back references to be more SHOULD-like and less
> MAY-like. I would urge all partices to consider whether they could come
> together on something close to the above.
I think prepending "Re: " is the _better_ choice, but I can agree on
not having it as a SHOULD. As I just wrote, I'll settle for "first
among equals".
In reality, it isn't going to go away, so any suggestion about
deprecating it will just be laughed at. (Besides, _people_ find it
useful. There are cases I've read of where people read some
newsgroups with a killfile that selects only followups by looking for
the Re: in the Subject; looking for a References header is much less
efficient due to it not being supported locally (at their sites) in
OVERVIEW.)
Seth