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

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

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> "Sudish Joseph" <sudish@VNET.IBM.COM> writes:
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>> > I'd say massage the subject as much as you want for presentation
>> > purposes in the article and subject buffers, but when you generate a
>> > reply or followup, make the default subject line be in strict
>> > compliance with The Seal and with Son-of-RFC1036.
>> 
>> Amen.

Lars> Indeedy.  Just because we feel it's totally neat-o-keano to rewrite
Lars> "Re[145]: re^4: WORD TOTALLY RO=?ISO-X-666?ABNSAGHS?=OOLZ!!!!!!!!! -reply" 
Lars> to "Re: Word totally sucks!", that doesn't mean that everybody will
Lars> agree.

That's more rewriting than I really had in mind:

Subject: Re: WORD TOTALLY RO=?ISO-X-666?ABNSAGHS?=OOLZ!!!!!!!!!
X-Original-Subject: Re[145]: re^4: WORD TOTALLY RO=?ISO-X-666?ABNSAGHS?=OOLZ!!!!!!!!! -reply
X-Gnus-GNKSA-Warning: You've got a bogus mailer, dude.  Fix it!

Lars> By sticking totally to The Seal and RFC1036 we give those
Lars> standards greater legitimacy and have a greater chance of
Lars> getting writers of non-compliant software to get their acts
Lars> together.  They will then not be able to say "Oh, but that thing
Lars> also rewrites Subject headers, so we can do to."  No.  We comply
Lars> with the standards.

Lars> If users decide to rewrite Subject headers manually -- that's up to
Lars> them.  

At some point we're going to need an adjunct to Gnus with
user-contributed neat-o-keano, but unofficial software.

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