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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
> 
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>>  
>>>>when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".
>>>
>>>Which client is that?  I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
>>>was quickly fixed after massive flames.
>> 
>> For example the windows MUA "The Bat!". (But it's a great program
>> nevertheless and one can turn it off.)
> 
> nn was great too, that is no excuse for behaving badly by default.
> Please flame the flying rodent!
> 
> Lars rejected patches to make Gnus fix the MSOE brain dead "Re: "
> localization for political reasons, I guess these reasons would also
> apply to smaller applications.

Bug Gnus _does_ fix such stupidities when replying.  If you use the
right regexp of course.

'(message-subject-re-regexp "^\\(\\(\\([Rr][Ee]\\|[Ss][Vv]\\|[Aa][Ww]\\): *\\)+\\)")

Henrik
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