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From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish list
Message-ID: <5839@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 18:29:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.5839
Posted: Mon May 18 18:29:55 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 05:36:24 EDT
References: <969@bobkat.UUCP> <21454@lll-tis.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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 In article <21454@lll-tis.UUCP> mcb@lll-tis.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) writes:
 >[...]That is why I usually make sure to change the subject
 >line (retaining "Re:" as directed by RFC850; see below) when
 >responding to exchanges[...]
 >[...] from RFC850, which says:
 >	[...]If  the  article  is  submitted  in
 >	response  to another article (e.g., is a  "followup")  the
 >	default subject should  begin  with  the  four  characters
 >	"Re: "   and the References line is required.    (The user
 >	might wish to edit the subject of the  followup,  but  the
 >  	default should begin with  "Re: ".)

 Sorry, the RFC says that the "default" should being with "Re: ",
 meaning that if the software helps you compose the headers, it (the
 software) should put "Re: " there unless told otherwise.  If the user
 wants to edit it (the "Subject: " header) to say "Mugwump", there is
 nothing in the RFC that forbids it. 

 J <11