On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 11:16, Matt Avery - Sun UK wrote:
> I always thought that "Re:" comes from the latin for "thing" (as in
> "Republic" = "things of the people"), and it became common in english
> through leagal documents which use a lot of latin terms ("sub judice",
> "habeas corpus") and so forth. So "Re:" would have quite good
> international credentials.
According to RFC2822, it's from the Latin "res", "in the matter of".
Who knew.
-- Dan
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