From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 14:13:16 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <200404291729.i3THT8214911@panix5.panix.com> Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com> writes:
>
>
>>I still _prefer_ a preference for prepending "Re: " when it's absent,
>>but I'll settle for neutrality and allow all the existing software to
>>continue doing that.
>
>
> Thank you for saying that. I know of several others who take that view,
> but are willing to compromise. The problem is that when I point out that
> there are such people, and that their views deserve consideration, certain
> people refuse to accept that what I say as the truth, and they insist that
> "neutrality" means exactly what they want it to mean, just like Humpty
> Dumpty.
"Preference" with no supporting rationale is worthless. There is no
support for such a preference in the defined syntax or semantics. Lacking
any rationale, it's difficult to take such a "preference" seriously in
an engineering effort.