From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38432 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message-subject-re Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:52:19 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <877kvm4e6k.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174295 22347 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12352 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2001 00:18:07 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Aug 2001 00:18:07 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656242A834 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:17:49 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F76682059; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:52:19 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Michael.Cook@cisco.com's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:11:49 -0400") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (artichoke) Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38432 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38432 On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Michael Cook wrote: > Frank Schmitt writes: > >> Henrik Enberg writes: >> >>>Ick, does this mean that we're going to see people posting with Gnus >>>using Sv: style subject lines and non-standard sig separators? >>> >>>I think some stuff _should_ be hardcoded. >> >> 100% acknowledge. > > well, all i really wanted to do was suppress the "Re:". > that seems reasonable, no? It's certainly not in the category of "best practice" and, while I can't find an RFC reference that mandates it for email, it's strongly suggested by RFC822... ...and it does mean that it's not going to be possible for some email clients that use the subject line to sort threads to tell that your messages are part of one. Er, /why/ do you want to do that? Daniel -- If Americans can be divorced for "incompatibility of temper" I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. -- _What is Wrong with the World_ (1910)