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The #2 one seems a bit off. "RE:" stands for Regarding. Yes it makes people look at your email, but it isn't "fake."
by chrisper 8y ago
The #2 one seems a bit off. "RE:" stands for Regarding. Yes it makes people look at your email, but it isn't "fake."
- cryptoz 8y agoThe GDPR is about not intentionally deceiving users. That practice is clearly deceptive and clearly violates GDPR.
- fiiv 8y agoYes but it's most commonly used in the medium of email as an indication of a reply.
- IncRnd 8y agoIn every email program, RE: stands for Reply. RE: is prefixed to a subject for showing that the current email is a reply to an earlier email. That is what is deceptive. RE: is not Regarding in this context but appears designed to increase acceptance by lying about the recipient receiving a response to an earlier non-existent communication.
- pc86 8y agoEmail didn't magically change the meaning "Re" to "Reply." It still means regarding; it's regarding the subject of the previous email.
- IncRnd 8y agoDon't argue for the sake of arguing. I didn't write that Email magically changed the meaning of a word! I wrote that email clients use RE: in a specific way. Re can mean regarding, but in an email subject line Re: has been taken for decades by email programs to mean something very specific, "Reply".
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI had this thought too, but this isn't the common usage and therefore someone was being deliberately deceptive when they decided to use it.
- m0shen 8y agoNitpick, but re is a word https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/re https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/re
- chrisper 8y agoIt's not nitpick, it's trivia!