From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 14:50:29 CST
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 2. The Subject-header SHOULD be initialized from the precursor's
> Subject-header, except that the precursor's Subject-content (5.4)
> MAY first be prepended with the back-reference "Re: " (which is
> case sensitive), unless it already begins with "Re: "; however
> posters MAY then change this before posting if they wish. The
> prepended "Re: " SHOULD NOT be contained within any encoded-word
> in the new Subject-content.
Nope, you just lost me again.
If you want to find a compromise position, please refrain from the urge to
add any other instances of the words "SHOULD" or "MUST" to the language.
The above language is also pointlessly and needlessly complicated. You
have a sentence with three subjunctive exceptions strung together in a
row.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>