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>>>>> 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:"?

Personally I use the following procmail rule to wash subject fields
before gnus even sees them:

:0 fhw
| /usr/bin/perl -ne "s/^(Subject:)\s+(S[Vv]:\s*|AW:\s*|Ad:\s*|R[eE](\(\d+\))?:\s*)+/\1 Re: /g;s/^(Subject:)\s+(=\?((iso|ISO)-8859-1|us-ascii)\?Q\?)((S[Vv]|AW|Ad|R[eE](\(\d+\))?)(:|=3[Aa])_*)+/\1 \2Re:_/g; s/\042\'([^\']*)\'\042/\042\1\042/g ; print"

(As well as AW, this takes care of "Ad", "SV" and "RE", and the
"galloping Re: SV: Re: syndrome...)

Unfortunately this doesn't help with USENET messages. :-/

I'm also unable to cover BASE64 encoded subjects (Oh yes!  Exchange
and Outlook variants cover them all...).