On Mon, 11 Feb 1991 11:46:57 GMT Alan Thew <[log in to unmask]> said:
>He was in fact re-posting something and used a Resent-subject: field.
>This field was totally ignored by LISTSERV and indeed does not appear in
>the notebook from the site which gateways this list to USENET.
>
>However, while the USENET header fields again use the original subject
>field, the Resent-Subject: field is at least present in the header
>fields. I'm puzzled as to why the field is omitted completely from the
>LISTSERV notebook.
Simply because there is no such field defined in RFC822, ie if you
forward a message to someone, the subject stays the same (unless you edit
the 'Subject:' field).
Eric