It is MS that does it wrong. They are not following the internet standard RFC-2822 (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt) that have replaced RFC-822 (which says the same thing).
>From the standard, section 3.6.5: 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. The standard does not say that you can translate this to other languages. Instead, tell your friends to use a standard compliant mail-client. By the way, MAY interpretation is defined in RFC-2119 (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2119.txt): 5. MAY This word, or the adjective "OPTIONAL", mean that an item is truly optional. One vendor may choose to include the item because a particular marketplace requires it or because the vendor feels that it enhances the product while another vendor may omit the same item. An implementation which does not include a particular option MUST be prepared to interoperate with another implementation which does include the option, though perhaps with reduced functionality. In the same vein an implementation which does include a particular option MUST be prepared to interoperate with another implementation which does not include the option (except, of course, for the feature the option provides.) Br, /Magnus Runesson, who likes standard compliant software. On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 23:15, Not Zed wrote: > > No, it is not. > > This was discussed earlier, "re:" is the convention (if not de-facto > standard), and if we start allowing anything else, its just going to > make the problem worse, and completely intractible. "re" isn't English > anyway, its latin, or a latin abbreviation of something (again this was > discussed about a month ago). > > I suggest just replying to their mess, and letting them delete it if it > gets too annoying. > > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 20:56, Joachim Holst wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I wonder if it's possible to get Evloution to accept other charactr > > combinations instead of RE: ? > > Many people in Sweden use SV: instead of RE: as default (mainly > > Microsoft users) and a mail is a bit strange looking if 12xSV: in the > > subject line. > > > > Regards, > > Joachim Holst > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
