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From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com>
Subject: Re: cc:Mail messed up Re[2]: subjects
Date: 28 Mar 1997 14:50:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxk9137iyn6.fsf@pocari-sweat.jprc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Joe Hildebrand's message of 28 Mar 1997 12:28:27 -0600

Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@mindspring.com> writes:
> I have some people with whom I associate that use cc:Mail.  It tends
> to munge Subject lines differently than normal.  When you reply to a
> reply, it adds Re[2]: to the subject, taking out the Re:.
> Can message.el be changed so that whenever it is stripping out Re:'s,

I would say that this falls under the same problem as German versions
of certain Microsoft products using "FW:" instead of "Re:", where the
proper fix is to prevail upon the authors of the broken software to
repair it for their next release, rather than asking the rest of the
universe to accommodate the bugs.


  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-28 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-28 18:28 Joe Hildebrand
1997-03-28 19:50 ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
1997-03-28 20:39 ` Dewey M. Sasser

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