Re: [sgnus v0.83] Followup Subject: typos in message.el (patch)

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Raja" == Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:

Raja> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> > Also, I'd like to not see the braindamaged ``-reply'', ever.
>> 
>> When do you see that?

Raja> Here's an example:
 ...

Raja> I don't have the article this was replying to, so I don't know if the
Raja> culprit is "Novell Groupwise 4.1" or some other broken mailer.

Oh, Novell Groupwise 4.1 is the culprit all right.  I really *like*
the X-Mailer header.

Novell Groupwise is so lame it readily stacks the -Reply tag as well:

X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1
Subject:  Re: [ hwg-main ] Web site -Reply -Reply


If this Subject: were instead:
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Re^3: [hwg-main] Web site -Reply -Reply -Reply

What would the harm be in Gnus rewriting the header as:
Subject: Re: [hwg-main] Web site

on followup?  Think of it as a bit of unpaid janitorial work to clean
the internet up after bad software ... :-)

I suppose one could always write a message-header-setup-hook or a
message-header-hook to do this.

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