Message-ID: <3693DF9E.7EF5661F@taxxi.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 01:11:42 +0300
From: Alexey Melnikov <mel@taxxi.com>
Organization: Epsylon Technologies
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To: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com>
CC: Wolfgang Segmuller <whs@watson.ibm.com>, drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Use of "Re: "
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Randall Gellens wrote:

> At 11:39 AM -0500 1/5/99, Wolfgang Segmuller wrote:
>
> > What about having another field that indicates the RE's and leaving the
> > subject alone.  For example: a new field called "subject-re" which
> > contains an integer that indicates the reply level.  If not present, then
> > this is an original message.  Now it's up to the client software to
> > display this to the user, taking into consideration the charset,
> > language and preferences of the user.
> >
> > I'm not suggesting any changes to the existing documents.  If this has
> > more interest, then I would suggest a new draft.
>
> The References field can be used for this.

References field doesn't tell whether message was replied or forwarded.

> At any rate, the "Re:'
> convention in the Subject is very well established, and so needs to
> continue to be supported.

Nobody asks yet to deprecate it.
I think that Wolfgang wants to define new [experimental] field for carrying
that information.

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Best Regards,
Alexey Melnikov
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