Garth Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

Which is why I didn't suggest it!

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Erik Corry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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