And it came to pass that Holger Metzger wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>> And it came to pass that Holger Metzger wrote:
>>
>>> Erik Corry wrote:
>>>> when sending it. The same solution could be used for
>>>> multi-language "Re:". Perhaps Mozilla already does
>>>> that, I unfortunately find Moz intolerably slow on my
>>>> PPro180 so I don't use it.
>>>
>>> Multi-langauge "Re:" is a bad idea IMHO. It would destroy
>>> threading.
>>
>> Only if the newsreader is so lame that it threads on the
>> subject line instead of the reference header as it ought
>> to.
>
> Outlook Express has multi-language threading.
> It's not really a threading problem, most readers do on the
> reference header, of course.
> It looks ugly, plain and simple. Outlook Express uses "AW"
> for "Re" in German, and subjects can look like this:
> "Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Blah"
>
> Because each time the newsreader does not recognize that
> it's a reply already.
Xnews doesn't care about the subject line unless you tell it to;
it threads on the reference header, so it doesn't matter what
language the 'RE' is in. Since it's reading the actual header
that actually dictated which message is a reply to which, it
comes out fine.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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