+----- On 18 Feb 1999 23:04:47 EST, Tim Showalter writes:
| > Date: 18 Feb 1999 22:12:43 -0500
| > From: Tim Showalter <tjs+(_at_)andrew(_dot_)cmu(_dot_)edu>
|
| > > > The subject is set to the specified :subject string, if present.
| > > > Otherwise, the subject is set to the characters "Re: " followed by the
| > > > original subject with all leading occurrences of the characters "Re: "
| > > > stripped off.
|
| > I have used this exact text. It may be a little vauge, but I'm not sure
| > I can improve on it much. If that isn't okay, please let me know.
|
| actually, I didn't use that exact text, just the parts I liked. The
| text I added was
|
| Users can specify the subject of the reply with the ":subject"
| parameter. If the :subject parameter is not supplied, then the
| subject is generated as follows: The subject is set to the
| characters "Re: " followed by the original subject with all
| leading occurances of the characters "Re: " stripped off.
I have noticed that there are are number of national variants to re:
in common use, in swedish it is sv: and I think german uses av:. I think
that using re: in replies is ok although it could be a site defined
parameter but that all leading short words ending in : should be
stripped.
/Michael