In <d173ec266418d84395b4b89759d861d403cf9...@usmdlmdowx025.dow.com>, on
11/02/2009
at 05:21 PM, "van der Grijn, Bart (B)" <bvandergr...@dow.com> said:
>As far as I'm concerned everyone has the right to use whatever reply
>prefix they want
There is an Internet convention to use "re: " in replies, regardles of
local language, and to not prepend re: if it is already there. There is
also a convention for indicating the previous topic when changing the
subject completely.
>but I just want to point out what seems like an option that would make
>the subjects more manageable.
Some software has code to recognize the conventional prefixes and
suffixes, so sticking to them makes the subjects more manageable for
messages within existing threads. For new threads a local IBM-MAIN
convention might be desirable.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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