From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Sat Dec 09 2006 - 15:39:31 CST

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On Saturday, December 09, 2006 at 19:21 CET,
     mouss <usebsdfree.fr> wrote:

> Gary V wrote:
>
> > At some point you also need to fix your MUA so it replies with
> > Re: or RE: and not R:
>
> This is a locale issue, and he is free to use whichever suits his
> country/job/... etc.

I believe the reply prefix "Re: " is mandated by an RFC and thus not
a locale issue. Either way, it's pretty obvious why it's a good idea
that everyone sticks to the same prefix.

But let's not start a holy war about this.

> > It messes up grouping in the mailing list archives.
>
> References and In-Reply-To headers should be enough to keep the thread
> structure.

Indeed, but his messages supply none of those headers.

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Magnus Bäck
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