On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 23:22:28 -0400, "Jeff Harper"
wrote:

Because it's important and affects most of us. The thread *was* started
with a "Pol:" to indicate it was off-topic but that seems to have gotten
lost.

[Geek]

It should have been prefixed with [Pol] not Pol:

Some newsreaders (most obviously Outlook) have incorrect behaviour
regarding usenet subject lines. Rather than using "" on comments to
a thread, they internationalise this to the local language. Swedish
and Sv: seems to be the most commonly encountered. Because they can
no longer rely on a prefix of , they assume that _any_ prefix
ending with a colon is a follow-up marker and strip and replace it
with their local version, in this case.

To avoid the problem, use [Pol], [Ad], [Ebay], [FA], [Spam] etc.
instead.


As with any problem, either woodworking or political, it's basically
M$oft's fault.