What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

[George Cox]

What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

[Anthony Wieser]

"George Cox" <***@spambtinternet.com.invalid> wrote in message news:***@spambtinternet.com.invalid...
: What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

Is your correspondent from a foreign country? In scandinavia, it is short
for Svar == answer.

Tony

[Jon Connell]

Post by Anthony Wieser
: What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?
Is your correspondent from a foreign country? In scandinavia, it is short
for Svar == answer.

I noticed something odd in Outlook related to this. People responding to
email from a German Outlook (or OE I guess) have "AW:" prefixed to
subjects (the English Outlook uses "RE:" instead of "Re:", BTW). Now the
odd thing is that If I respond back, the "AW:" is replaced by a "RE:".
Seems to do it with any "??:" if an e-mail is a reply (not that it lets
me look at all the headers to check).

Jon

[Malcolm Gray]

Post by Jon Connell

Post by Anthony Wieser

Post by George Cox
What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

Is your correspondent from a foreign country? In scandinavia, it is
short for Svar == answer.

I noticed something odd in Outlook related to this. People responding
to email from a German Outlook (or OE I guess) have "AW:" prefixed to
subjects (the English Outlook uses "RE:" instead of "Re:", BTW). Now
the odd thing is that If I respond back, the "AW:" is replaced by a
"RE:". Seems to do it with any "??:" if an e-mail is a reply (not
that it lets me look at all the headers to check).

I have never met a version of "outlook" or "outlook express" that did
not let
you view all the headers. (outlook ...obviously... on an individual
email
window view|options menu option)

[Jon Connell]

Post by Malcolm Gray
I have never met a version of "outlook" or "outlook express" that did
not let
you view all the headers. (outlook ...obviously... on an individual
email
window view|options menu option)

Tsk ... silly me. Obvious!

It seems to be using Thread-Topic and Thread-Index rather than Reference
or In-Reply-To headers it seems.

Though it still capitalises the prefix, which is ugly.

Jon

[Tim Fitzmaurice]

Post by George Cox
What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

Its the equivalent of Re: from certain email setups. A friend in Sweden
usually ends up with this on his mails, I think I've seen it from Norway
as well

Tim
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[zulu]

Post by George Cox
What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

Syphonic Vent <VBG>

[Ben Hutchings]

Post by George Cox
What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

It generally means the sender is using a broken mailer.

[George Cox]

Post by George Cox
What does "SV" mean at the start of a post Subject?

Thank you for the replies, or thank you for the SVplies.