If you look carefully at the "X-Mailer" field of the email sent, you
will see that the mail client used is "Lotus Notes Release 5.07a  May
14, 2001". Unfortunately, the french version is replacing the "Re:"
with "Réf. :". Changing this value if probably not possible on a
per-user basis...

Regards,
Jérôme.

On 6/20/05, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a note, since people's email clients replacing "Re:" with
> various abbreviations in their own language leads to chains of the
> type seen in the subject above...
> 
> "Re" does not stand for "regarding"; in fact, it's not English at
> all. It is the Latin word "re", the ablative case of "res" which
> means "thing". Thus, "Re:" means something like "From the thing:" and
> is not an abbreviation.
> 
> Feel free to express your linguistic pride by replacing "Re:" with
> whatever you wish, but realize that you're not thwarting an
> Anglocentric plot to take over the world, but are instead trying to
> beat an already dead language, a fact that's particularly ironic if
> one speaks a Romance language as the "Réf. :" above indicates. :-)
> 
> Todd
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