From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0d8bae5: Fix capitalization of mail headers
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 09:47:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1se630ld.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180520090853.BA0E920468@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 20 May 2018 05:08:53 -0400 (EDT)")
> -The @samp{To}, @samp{Cc}, and @samp{Bcc} fields can appear any number
> +The @samp{To}, @samp{CC}, and @samp{BCC} fields can appear any number
FWIW, I can't remember seeing "CC:" or "BCC:" in an email message
whereas I've seen "Cc:" and "Bcc:" many many times. So my reaction to
the above line would be "Huh? Why didn't they write `TO` to
be consistent?"
I understand "CC" arose as an initialism whereas "To" is a word, but
nowadays I consider the "Cc" of my email messages to be a word more than
an initialism (IOW it means "CC" more than it means "Carbon Copy").
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-20 13:47 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20180520090853.BA0E920468@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-05-20 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-05-20 14:33 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0d8bae5: Fix capitalization of mail headers Andreas Schwab
2018-05-20 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-21 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-21 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-20 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-20 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-20 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-21 0:24 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-21 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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