Re: Kernel 2.4.21 (subject rewriting rules)

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:46, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> 
> Am Montag, 28.07.03, um 17:29 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:18, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> >>
> >> Am Montag, 28.07.03, um 16:22 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel 
> >> Dänzer:
> >>
> >>> As for the subject tags, those can be added or filtered out by
> >>> everyone, so I guess the majority wins there. Opinions? :)
> >>
> >> I guess filtering on "X-Been-There:" is enough, no?
> >
> > Absolutely; the tags aren't necessary (or even very useful) for
> > filtering. The question is: 'What do you want the subject to look like
> > by default?' :)
> 
> As crufty as possible, no? ;)
> 
> Well, nonetheless, I guess there are two valid points for subject tags, 
> namely if people can only read their mail via webmail, where they have 
> no filtering. It would add for clarity a lot. And, if the subject 
> rewriting supports complex expressions with replacement and so on, i.e. 
> you could filter out doubled tags, doubled Re's etc. But no idea if 
> this is possible. I guess sourceforge doesn't want to add this load to 
> their mailservers.

AFAIK, this is a mailman feature which simply checks if the subject
contains the given text and prepends it if it doesn't. It gets really
ugly really quickly.


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