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From: mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.software.b
Subject: Proliferation of "Re^n:" in subject lines
Message-ID: <272@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 2 Jul 89 07:00:40 GMT
Followup-To: news.misc
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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Over the last week or so I've noticed the proliferation of subject
lines beginning with "Re^n:", as in 

	Subject: Re^6: Flag burning

where "6" corresponds to the number of articles in the thread, at
least according to the References: line.  I assume this is no
coincidence, and since these articles were posted by a number of
different people at different sites, I presume there's software
involved (or else a vast conspiracy).   

Is this a C news-ism?  A TMNN-ism?  All I knows is that it breaks 
rn followups, which end up as 

	Subject: Re: Re^6: Flag burning

unless fixed in the editor.   Curious.

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Michael C. Berch  
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