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Patrick O'Callaghan (poc@usb.ve) writes on 1 June 93 at 18:17:54 +0200
>In message <9305300657.AA04938@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz>, Paul Robinson writes:
>> But if you send mail out, chances are it posts "To:","CC:", "Subject:" and
>> possibly other options, all using the English words.  And if you have
>> someone who is responsible for mail at your site, that person has to
>> be able to read english to debug SMTP, which ALL transactions are done
>> in English.
>>
>> [...]
>It seems to me, without wishing to offend anyone, that this is a
>complete waste of time and energy. I would agree that having things
>like "Subject:", "From:" and so forth in the user's chosen language
>should be encouraged, but at the *user interface*. There's no earthly
>[...]

Agreed.  For mail at least, it is a trival matter for the MUA to parse
out the header from the body of the message and to grab interesting
lines from the header (To:, From:, Subject:, etc.).  These could all
easily be presented to the user in the native language.  It looks like
at least "Zmail" has some support for this, I would guess other Motif
MUAs would also be able to do similar things.

   Dan
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