On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 14:14:31 +0100 Patrick Lindblom <[log in to unmask]> said: >In swedish, the equivalent of "Re:" is "Sv:" and some people use "Ang:" >for the same purpose: making a big mess because they did not use their brains before coding :-) Logically, the Swedish equivalent of "Subject:" is "Amne:", and in the "Amne:" field these clever programmers would be welcome to use "Sv:". But in fact they use "Subject:" so that their software can interoperate with foreign products. When displaying the message, they put the contents of "Subject:" in a field or column called "Amne". This is exactly what they should be doing for "Re:" and "Sv:". When Svensson participates in an international (English) list hosted in Turkey, "Sv:" is guaranteed to break threads in just about everyone's mail program and in the web interface... Eric