Tom Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, March 25, 2004 stated:
>I thought there was a standard and it was to not use any bracketed,
>braced or parenthised (parenthesised, parented, parentheticalatalizated?)
>number.
Actually, it's not really discussed in RFC 2822. Here is the only
information provided:
3.6.5. Informational fields
The informational fields are all optional. The "Keywords:" field
contains a comma-separated list of one or more words or
quoted-strings. The "Subject:" and "Comments:" fields are
unstructured fields as defined in section 2.2.1, and therefore may
contain text or folding white space.
subject = "Subject:" unstructured CRLF
comments = "Comments:" unstructured CRLF
keywords = "Keywords:" phrase *("," phrase) CRLF
These three fields are intended to have only human-readable content
with information about the message. The "Subject:" field is the most
common and contains a short string identifying the topic of the
message. When used in a reply, the field body MAY start with the
string "Re: " (from the Latin "res", in the matter of) followed by
the contents of the "Subject:" field body of the original message.
If this is done, only one instance of the literal string "Re: " ought
to be used since use of other strings or more than one instance can
lead to undesirable consequences. The "Comments:" field contains any
additional comments on the text of the body of the message. The
"Keywords:" field contains a comma-separated list of important words
and phrases that might be useful for the recipient.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
So, other than knowing that we should use Re:, but not Re:Re:, we don't
know have a clear it should be there at all or it should be Re:[2], or
Re:(2). It's pretty gray as to what should and shouldn't be used when it
come to using or not using numbers.
Wayne
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