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Subject: Re: [xsl] what does "AW:" mean?
From: Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:17:45 +0000 (GMT)
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

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