From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25182 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Rychter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:" Date: 20 Sep 1999 15:26:55 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162615 12683 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16476 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:26:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB10345; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:26:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:26:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11902 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:26:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from tnuctip-i.icm.edu.pl (root@tnuctip-i.icm.edu.pl [148.81.208.223]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16445 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:24:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by tnuctip.icm.edu.pl id <102883-459>; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:26:55 +0200 Original-To: Steinar Bang X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.7 #1 Sun May 2 21:59:31 CEST 1999 X-PGP-Id: C38B2AAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: 0A 8E B4 16 85 D2 69 DA 65 93 FF D0 FB EE DD F7 In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "16 Sep 1999 13:03:58 +0200" Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25182 >>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang : >>>>> Jochen Lillich : >> 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.