Bart Schaefer <schaefer(_at_)brasslantern(_dot_)com>
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Tony Hansen wrote:
Is anyone else bothered by "Auto-Re" being mixed Greek and Latin?
(Yes.)
Anyone else care? Anyone have better suggestions?
Shorter is generally better. Given that this is a newly invented
convention anyway, how about just "Auto:"?
Wild guess 1: "Auto:" has the additional benefit that more current-day
MUAs might see it as a "Re:"-like prefix, since it matches "^[a-zA-Z]*:".
Wild guess 2: "Auto" is loaned into many languages, so there'll be less
pressure to translate the word than there's been for "Re:".
--Arnt