Re: Comments on draft-resnick-2822upd-02.txt

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, [email protected] wrote:
> > so if, instead of
> >     the string "Re: " (from the Latin "res", in the matter of)
> > you write
> >     the string "Re: " (an abbreviation of the Latin "in re", meaning "in
> >     the matter of")
> > all will be correct.
> 
> Yep, now that I think about it you're correct. This is a reasonable change.
> Alternately, the  whole thing about the Latin could be omitted.

Perhaps it would make sense to strengthen the idea that "Re:" is a fixed
string not to be translated into other languages (I see "AW:" more often
than any other attempted translation), and that things like "Re: re:" or
"Re^2:" or "Re: AW: Re:"  should be avoided.  I seem to recall that
USEFOR came up with some reasonable wording for this, but I can't find
it now.

--apb (Alan Barrett)