From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39466 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:56:18 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874rovhbdp.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <873d4gmgnw.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <669caw9a.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175166 28008 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7968 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 15:59:01 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 15:59:01 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15uc11-0006HP-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:56:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA14048 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:56:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 7930 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2001 15:56:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7925 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 15:56:34 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 15:56:34 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F22EDA7 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:56:20 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A475BDFD for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:56:19 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A1B20BD4C; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:56:18 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39466 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39466 Per Abrahamsen writes: > Frank Schmitt writes: > >> Per Abrahamsen 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