[Mailman-developers] Subject line, Re:, subject prefix (a small patch)

[Ken Manheimer]

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, John Viega wrote:

> One thing I've seen some mailers do which I have considered for mailman
> is to collapse Re: Re: into Re[2]: and Re: Re[n]: into Re[n+1]:.

My feeling still is pretty soundly that mailman should do minimal
messing with the subject line.  It makes sense for it to introduce the
prefix, and avoid duplicating it if already there - that seems clearly
within the purview of the mailing list.  It clearly should not introduce
any "Re"s of it's own, and it i do not think it should mess with "Re"s
that users introduce.  It may be the user's mailer is fucked, and adding
re's when it shouldn't - but it doesn't seem to me to be mailman's place
to rectify that.

Ken