Kryptolus C.L. wrote: > 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. > > > Errr, Dude! Threading does not use the subject line! > It uses the Reference header. Why do you think sometimes you see new > articles threaded under old ones? Someone presses reply and clears out > subject and body and writes new ones but the References header remains. >
It's not the threading per se, it's the changes to the subject line. The rule is to keep the old subject and prepend "Re:" *except* when the subject already starts with "Re:". Prepending "Aw:" or whatever would cause the next replyer's newsreader to add an extra "Re:", and so on. The thread itself would be intact, but the subject lines would be a mess.
