[44587] in Cypherpunks
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael H. Warfield)
Sun Dec 3 17:37:55 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 17:30:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
In-Reply-To: <199512031959.OAA00178@localhost.cjs.net> from "Christopher J. Shaulis" at Dec 3, 95 02:59:18 pm
Christopher J. Shaulis enscribed thusly:
> My mail??
> Who is the wise guy who keeps putting "Your mail" in the topic?
Kidding, right? Snicker.
It's not a who - it's a what. Some twit DID NOT put a subject on the
ORIGINAL message. The next person(s) who replied to him had a mail program
which recognized the lack of a "Subject" and substituted "Your mail". That
beats a subject line of "Subect: Re:"...
Actually and technically they don't bother to "spot" the lack of
a Subject. The programs set their default subject for replys to "Your mail"
and then if the read a Subject header, it overrides the default. I know
elm does and I believe pine does, as well as a host of others.
Works well for personal mail even if it does look STUPID on a
mailing list. Only known cure is to make sure you have a REAL SUBJECT.
> Christopher
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