On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Frank Lesser wrote:

> Hi,
>
> An explanation of AW:
> http://www.faqs.org/usefor/1997/Jul/0134.html
>

Doh! *dumb* idea, IMHO.

Especially if everyone starts doing it intheir native language? Will we
soon see email that starts like:

  Le: AW: Re: AW: ES: AW: Le: ....

(possibly in non-ISO8859 charsets?)

Also, all email agents have would have to know about all such prefixes, to
ignore them for sorting purposes.. BLEAH! Or not put on an extra such
prefix (if its a mailing list.)

Given that its taken a decade to keep email clients from doing:
  Re: Re: Re: Re: ..


Email, making your life easier. :)


Scott