On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:43:40PM +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: > On Saturday, January 12, 2002, 12:44:45 PM, Marck wrote: > MDP> On 12 January 2002 at 08:43:26 +0100 (which was 07:43 where I live) > MDP> Chris Lilley wrote to Jernej Simon?i? and made these points: > > >> Where is the Re[n] converion defined (eg, some RFC or other) because > >> my sysadmin has asked to to set The Bat! to not do that, on the > >> grounds that RFC 822 does not list this convention. > > MDP> That's not actually true. The RFC puts no constraint on the way > MDP> Subject: header content is used. > > My sysadmin quoted this from RFC 822, sec 3.6.5:
Actually, that's from RFC 2822, an updated version of RFC 822. (2822 supercedes 822.) > 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. > > So thats a MAY for using "Re: " at all, but if you do then the MUA > ought (which I would read as a SHOULD) to have only one of them. Note "use of other strings ... can lead to undesirable consequences." RFC 2822 makes it quite clear IMHO that 'Re: ' should be used, and not 'RE: ', 'Re[2]: ' or some localized variant like 'Sv: ' (though MUAs should feel free to localize things when displaying them to to users.) I disagree with Jernej's assertion that the use of Re[2] is growing; I see it only rarely and try to stomp it out whenever I see it. :) -- Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ tel:+1-613-261-6630 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ______________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbtech.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
