Re: Subjects, "Re" and "Fwd" (was Re: pine, and x509 certificates (fwd))
Kolbjørn Barmen <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Yes, this (I _think_ it stands for Antwort - response in German) always > > hurts my eyes even more. > > I agree that it's probably Antwort. There's also SV which I gather is from > some Swedish word. It's "Svar" (answer) and is a word that is understood in all scandinavian countries. > > But pine already adheres to "Re:" so IMHO it > > ought to use "Fwd:" prefixed as well (besides, ask the guys in the > > newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery... they'll tell you it's the standard). > > Actually, "re:" is the only standard; it is defined in RFC 2822 and earlier > documents. Sadly, some people do not read the RFCs, and rely upon folklore > instead. The people who sent things like AW and SV think that they are > "translating English into my language". "re:" is Latin, not English. Indeed. > There is no standard for "fwd:". There may be folklore (such as the > alt.sysadmin.recovery that you mentioned), but there are multiple folklores. > If you make one folklore happy, you offend some other folklore. I have occationally added in my own "WTF:" when I have to answer subjects that have escalated to Sv: Re: [list] Re: Fwd: ... strangely enough, I never got a comment on that :) -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info