From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34494 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oyvind Moll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Eliminating repetitious "Re: Re: Re: ..." Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:41:42 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20010131164142.B5403@orakel.ntnu.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170411 30734 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:20:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319D8D049D for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:42:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAC01047; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:42:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:41:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20065 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:41:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from apollo.orakel.ntnu.no (apollo.orakel.ntnu.no [129.241.56.245]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BA31D049D for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:41:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 13596 invoked by uid 28778); 31 Jan 2001 15:41:42 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from karl@charcoal.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:31:42AM -0500 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34494 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34494 * Karl Kleinpaste | | I want to repair this damage done to Subject lines, notably in mailing | lists which have standard tokens in them. [A small digression:] At least one MUA I know uses a number in parantheses to indicate the "depth", like this: Subject: Re(4): Eliminating repetitious "Re: Re: Re: ..." Fun experiment: Send a mail with a subject like this: Subject: Re(2147483647): Foo bar When a person with the standardly challenged MUA replies, the subject will be: Subject: Re(-2147483648): Foo bar Look, mommy! A signed 32-bit thingie! -- Øyvind Møll Initio IT-løsninger AS