Take a company with people in both US and Europe.
Add in mail systems that don't recognize other languages' reply prefixes ("Re:" and "Réf:") and so omit adding a new one when doing a reply.
Mix in a long e-mail thread.
And you end up with an e-mail message that looks like "Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Re: Réf: Performance Issues"
A thing of beauty. And sort of a catchy tune, too.
« Previous • FRONT PAGE • Next »
The goofy thing is that it's behavior that would be trivial to fix, but nobody seems particularly interested in doing so. Rrg.
Depending on your mail client, it may suddenly start sorting such messages under "R" rather the core subject name. Double-rrg.
Note: This comment space is for discussion of the above topic, and not for unsolicited commercial links. I use SpamLookup, optional TypeKey registration, and mandatory TinyTuring text CAPTCHA to filter out comment spam. If you have technical problems with these measures, please . With or without TypeKey, you'll need to specify an e-mail address, which will not be published or otherwise abused.
Original material on this weblog is available under a Creative Commons License from
The views expressed by me on this website/weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of
my employer, my church, my party, my candidate, my community, my wife, my friends, or, on occasion, myself.
Views expressed by others are, well, theirs.
