From: Jan Rychter <jwr@icm.edu.pl>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
Date: 20 Sep 1999 15:26:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u2opbtnk.fsf@tnuctip.icm.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "16 Sep 1999 13:03:58 +0200"
>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:
>>>>> Jochen Lillich <jochen@dynamis.de>:
>> The Gnus manual says in "Washing Mail":
>> Case in point: The German version of Microsoft Exchange adds `AW: '
>> to the subjects of replies instead of `Re: '. I could pretend to be
>> shocked and dismayed by this, but I haven't got the energy. It is
>> to laugh.
>> But it doesn't say how to actually do something about that. Now, how
>> do I replace this annoying "AW:" by "Re:"?
Steinar> Personally I use the following procmail rule to wash subject
Steinar> fields before gnus even sees them:
[...]
Steinar> (As well as AW, this takes care of "Ad", "SV" and "RE", and
Steinar> the "galloping Re: SV: Re: syndrome...)
Steinar> Unfortunately this doesn't help with USENET messages. :-/
[...]
We have a similar problem here in Poland with "Odp:". I wrote a couple
of functions that take care of the problem in Gnus (I won't post them,
several nice solutions were already proposed). However, whenever I
reply to any mail and my functions kick in, they also insert a notice
that the Subject line has been processed in that way and refer people to
a web page that explains how horribly broken Microsoft programs are.
As far as USENET is concerned, we have (with a couple of fellow
newsadmins) recently inserted appropriate filtering rules into
filter_nnrpd.pl on most large newsservers in Poland. They cut the crap
from subject lines and insert a notice into X-Notice headers. I can only
recommend that approach to newsadmins worldwide.
--J.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-20 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-16 9:36 Jochen Lillich
1999-09-16 10:39 ` Jens Kloecker
1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-16 18:30 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-09-16 19:40 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1999-09-17 7:37 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-18 9:51 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1999-09-20 13:26 ` Jan Rychter [this message]
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