David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 
11/16/2001:
> Darren & Dan --
> 
> ...and then darren chamberlain said...
> % Dan Boger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 11/16/2001:
> % > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:31:30PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> % > perl -i -n -e 's/^/-  /;' $1
> % > 
> % > something like this? :)
> % 
> % Close!
> % 
> % perl -i -pe 's/^/-  /' $1
> 
> Yes; thanks much to both of you.  Now throw in a matching clause that
> will trap $4 out of the subject line and print a new "CC:" line to it
> and he'll be done :-)

Hm.. slightly more complex, but still doable:

perl -i -ane '/^Subject:/ && print "Cc: $F[4]\n";print' $1

... I think (haven't tested it on a mail message, but it works on
random text files).

I don't remember the format fo the original example Subject line;
the $F[4] might need to be $F[3].

(darren)

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    -- Maurice Chapelain

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