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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Proliferation of "Re^n:" in subject lines
Message-ID: <89Jul2.110144edt.10370@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 2 Jul 89 15:01:29 GMT
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mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:

>Over the last week or so I've noticed the proliferation of subject
>lines beginning with "Re^n:", as in 

It's an nn-ism.  I guess No News is good news for a lot of people, enough
to rewire their brain and switch news readers (the "... writes:" line with
no message-id is also a hint that the poster is using nn).  But I do wish
nn had this feature excised.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4