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master fbf2933: Fix docs about the meaning of the Re: in the subject
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Tassilo Horn |
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master fbf2933: Fix docs about the meaning of the Re: in the subject |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 06:53:10 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit fbf2933e6907c1344c0b543c3f05cb3cfcc0ebc3
Author: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Commit: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Fix docs about the meaning of the Re: in the subject
* doc/misc/message.texi (Message Headers): Clarify that it comes from
the Latin "res" meaning "in the matter of" rather than "in response
to" as claimed previously (see RFC-2822).
---
doc/misc/message.texi | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/misc/message.texi b/doc/misc/message.texi
index c0e3dfa..4136ad8 100644
--- a/doc/misc/message.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/message.texi
@@ -1699,14 +1699,15 @@ result is inserted.
@cindex Sv
@cindex Re
Responses to messages have subjects that start with @samp{Re: }. This
-is @emph{not} an abbreviation of the English word ``response'', but is
-Latin, and means ``in response to''. Some illiterate nincompoops have
-failed to grasp this fact, and have ``internationalized'' their software
-to use abominations like @samp{Aw: } (``antwort'') or @samp{Sv: }
-(``svar'') instead, which is meaningless and evil. However, you may
-have to deal with users that use these evil tools, in which case you may
-set this variable to a regexp that matches these prefixes. Myself, I
-just throw away non-compliant mail.
+is @emph{not} an abbreviation of the English word ``response'', but it
+comes from the Latin ``res'', and means ``in the matter of''. Some
+illiterate nincompoops have failed to grasp this fact, and have
+``internationalized'' their software to use abominations like
+@samp{Aw: } (``antwort'') or @samp{Sv: } (``svar'') instead, which is
+meaningless and evil. However, you may have to deal with users that
+use these evil tools, in which case you may set this variable to a
+regexp that matches these prefixes. Myself, I just throw away
+non-compliant mail.
Here's an example of a value to deal with these headers when
responding to a message:
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