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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> (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 found that most of the problem disappeared with the following:

  (setq gnus-simplify-ignored-prefixes "^\\(Sv: \\|Re: \\)+"
        gnus-simplify-subject-functions '(gnus-simplify-subject
					  gnus-simplify-whitespace))

(fill in your favourite Re-variants).

I don't bother with removing them from articles.  Damned if I want to
waste my time cleaning up after Mickeysoft.
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen                                           "Woo hoo!?"