From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6218 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Rewriting the subject (Was: [sgnus v0.83] Followup Subject: typos in message.el (patch)) Date: 15 May 1996 15:25:59 -0700 Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.56) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146705 2911 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:45:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA15905 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 16:03:08 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 00:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA15428; Wed, 15 May 1996 15:26:01 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 14 May 1996 19:07:23 -0700 Original-Lines: 40 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.85/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6218 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6218 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> "Sudish Joseph" writes: >> Per Abrahamsen 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. -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.