Subject: RE: [xsl] what does "AW:" mean? From: "Dion Houston" <dionh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:31:32 -0800 |
OK, I'll bite on this one... 3.6.5 says: 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. The all upper case MAY is defined in RFC 2119 as: 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.) I think it's reasonable, accepted, and helpful that certain email programs will localize the prefix to be more meaningful to their users than arbitrarily stuffing a latin prefix on it :) But this is off topic... I'll shut up now :) Dion -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Jenkins [mailto:trevor.jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:18 PM To: XSL-List (E-mail) On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I've seen subject lines like > Re: AW: [xsl] Syntax Problem > What does the AW mean? It means that someone is using an email program that is broken with respect to RFC [2]822 where only "Re:" (and then only one of them) is supposed to appear in a Subject: line. (Section 3.6.5 of 2822.) A certain softwre company is trying to mess with the Internet standards. Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ -- <>< Re: deemed! XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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