Re: Rewriting the subject (Was: [sgnus v0.83] Followup Subject: typos in message.el (patch))

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

"Sudish Joseph" <sudish@VNET.IBM.COM> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> > I'd say massage the subject as much as you want for presentation
> > purposes in the article and subject buffers, but when you generate a
> > reply or followup, make the default subject line be in strict
> > compliance with The Seal and with Son-of-RFC1036.
> 
> Amen.

Indeedy.  Just because we feel it's totally neat-o-keano to rewrite
"Re[145]: re^4: WORD TOTALLY RO=?ISO-X-666?ABNSAGHS?=OOLZ!!!!!!!!! -reply" 
to "Re: Word totally sucks!", that doesn't mean that everybody will
agree.  By sticking totally to The Seal and RFC1036 we give those
standards greater legitimacy and have a greater chance of getting
writers of non-compliant software to get their acts together.  They
will then not be able to say "Oh, but that thing also rewrites Subject
headers, so we can do to."  No.  We comply with the standards.

If users decide to rewrite Subject headers manually -- that's up to
them.  

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