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

[Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>]

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

RP> Or a pretty good reason to massage it into something that a human
RP> can more easilly parse.
PA> Well, that is what nn tried to do with Re^4: and Lotus try to do
PA> with the "- Reply" string.

Just because something has been done poorly is not reason to not do it
right somewhere else.

PA> I'd say massage the subject as much as you want for presentation
PA> purposes in the article and subject buffers, but when you generate a
PA> reply or followup, make the default subject line be in strict
PA> compliance with The Seal and with Son-of-RFC1036.

You need to be careful, here.  For example, is scoring/killing done on
the real header contents, or on the massaged version?  And if the
former, how to make that apparant in the crossover?  But otherwise this
is quite workable; I am all for it.  In fact, much of the code to do
this already exists in gnus-simplify-subject-fuzzy and the -regexp
variable.

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