On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:36:08 +0900, you wrote:

>tony summerfelt <snowzone5 / hotmail.com> writes:

>He's probably wondering why your news reader keeps stripping
>(and/or not adding) the "Re: " from the subject.  It's quite
>unhelpful.

as an OT aside: i'm not using a newsreader, i'm on the mailing list,
so it would be my email client doing that (most can be set to strip
re:'s to avoid them piling up.

someone should correct me if i'm wrong, but don't all relatively
compliant  newsreaders and  and clients go by a message id for
threading and NOT the subject line?

subject kept intact for example of why i strip them.