Re: Why the [SQU]?

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> I use:
>
> :0fhw
> * ^Subject:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
> | NEWSUB=`echo $MATCH | perl -pe 's/^(re: *)?\[[^\] ]*\] */$1/gi'` &&\
> formail -i "Subject: $NEWSUB"
>
> Kind of ugly, but it seems to do the job.
>
> (yes, I know that's perl in there - my mail happens to be
> processed on a box that I can't get to directly, so it's the least
> common denominator)

I use procmail as well and can do things like this, but if you reply
to a message with the [SQU] removed from it, the message sent back to
the list no longer contains it, thus entirely negating the purpose of
having it at all. We are seeing this already. This also completely
screws up message-threading mechanisms that are available in most
MUAs. Subject line prepends just aren't the right solution, never
have been, and never will be.

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