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! -- Erik Corry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
