RE: what does "AW:" mean?

OK, I'll bite on this one...

3.6.5 says:

When used in a reply, the field body MAY start with the string "Re: "
(from the Latin "res", in the matter of) followed by the contents of the
"Subject:" field body of the original message.


The all upper case MAY is defined in RFC 2119 as:


This word, or the adjective "OPTIONAL", mean that an item is truly
optional. One vendor may choose to include the item because a particular
marketplace requires it or because the vendor feels that it enhances the
product while another vendor may omit the same item. An implementation
which does not include a particular option MUST be prepared to
interoperate with another implementation which does include the option,
though perhaps with reduced functionality. In the same vein an
implementation which does include a particular option MUST be prepared
to interoperate with another implementation which does not include the
option (except, of course, for the feature the option provides.) 


I think it's reasonable, accepted, and helpful that certain email
programs will localize the prefix to be more meaningful to their users
than arbitrarily stuffing a latin prefix on it :)

But this is off topic... I'll shut up now :)

Dion
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Jenkins [mailto:trevor.jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:18 PM
To: XSL-List (E-mail)

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've seen subject lines like
>    Re: AW:  Syntax Problem
> What does the AW mean?

It means that someone is using an email program that is broken with
respect to RFC [2]822 where only "Re:" (and then only one of them) is
supposed to appear in a Subject: line. (Section 3.6.5 of 2822.) A
certain
softwre company is trying to mess with the Internet standards.

Regards, Trevor

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