From: Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
Subject: Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:56:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874rovhbdp.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjwv1s3txz.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk>
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>>
>>>>when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".
>>>
>>>Which client is that? I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
>>>was quickly fixed after massive flames.
>>
>> For example the windows MUA "The Bat!". (But it's a great program
>> nevertheless and one can turn it off.)
And "Becky" which is a popular Japanese mailer. In both The Bat! and
Becky, the mis-feature is easily turned off.
> nn was great too, that is no excuse for behaving badly by default.
> Please flame the flying rodent!
I now have procmail bounce such mails from "The Bat!" and "Becky"
pointing to a URL describing how to disable the behavior.
> Lars rejected patches to make Gnus fix the MSOE brain dead "Re: "
> localization for political reasons, I guess these reasons would also
> apply to smaller applications.
That's silly -- the whole point of Gnus is that it is overly
featureful to the point of actually being useful. :-)
By that same logic, gnus-simplify-subject in gnus-sum.el should not
recognize these weird Re: variants.
--
matt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-19 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 3:50 Matt Armstrong
2001-10-19 4:53 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-19 8:07 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-10-19 8:39 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-19 15:17 ` Henrik Enberg
2001-12-29 23:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-10-19 15:56 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
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