From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 08:28:05 CDT
In <40986B2E.2080306@erols.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> It is primarily for the benefit of humans (indeed, non-humans need to
>> ignore it), nevertheless it still identifies the topic of the message.
>In precisely what way does "Re:" identify the topic of a message which
>has nothing to do with that particular sequence of characters?
It indicates that the topic of the message is a continuing discussion of
the matters indicated by the words following that "Re: ".
>>>and therefore has no place in "A purely syntax and semantics document".
>>
>>
>> True, but we are not proposing to place it in such a document.
>That is in fact the definition of the USEFOR document.
>From our current draft:
The purpose of this present standard is to define the format of
articles and the protocols to be used for Netnews in general, and for
Usenet in particular, and to set standards to be followed by software
that implements those protocols.
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