prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Michael.Cook@cisco.com wrote:
> > after seeing one too many subject lines that looked like
>> 
>>   Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: [list-name] RE: Fwd: foo
>> 
>> it occurred to me that the Re prefix has no real value.
>
> Well, preserving all that without adding another Re: isn't a big
> improvement.  Maybe it would be best to first strip away all Re:s,

ok, but that's a separate issue -- cleaning up subject lines that
have already been mangled.  sure, it'd be nice if gnus could wash
the subject line for display in the summary buffer (can gnus be
configured to do that already?).  but all i really wanted to do when
i started this thread was to keep gnus from inserting "Re:" into the
subject line in new messages i compose.

ok, here's another patch.  this one adds a boolean
`message-subject-inhibit-re'.

m.