[OS X TeX] My Soap Box

[Alan T Litchfield]

On 11/02/2011, at 11:53 AM, Ross Moore wrote:

>
>>
>> I'd personally add "it makes no sense, but there is nothing we can  
>> do about it."
>
> There is always some kind of sense.
> Just using the subject line to determine the thread has its
> own set of complications.
>
> Some mailers add "Re:" at each reply, even if there is one (or more)
> there already, so the subject lines grow and grow, eventually  
> exhausting
> something somewhere --- e.g. in a mailing-list archive.
>

And, that is if your server uses English "Re:" and not French, German,  
Chinese, etc.

Alan

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