On 2002.01.19, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Thomas Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Michael Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > Some mailinglists prefix every subject with the name of the list. > > > Is it possible to suppress this prefix in the index_format? How? Or > > > is this a case for procmail? > > > > It's more efficient to do it with procmail since you only have to do > > the operation once at delivery time. > > Some of us are alergic to subject mangling like this (and there's no > knowing what the mailing list will do if we strip it entirely); and
Unfortunately, there's no knowing what the list will do if you keep it, either. Some of them misbehave then, too. So I strip it; the lists cope. I strip the labels on such messages as they arrive in my inbox, copying the original Subject: to Old-Subject:, but I keep the pristine message in the list archive's copy of the message. My procmail also copies a short expression identifying the list to the X-Label: header of my inbox, so that my index display shows it, and I can easily search on it, etc., without having the awful mess in the subject line itself. I also take out the [2] in Re[2]: prefixes. -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
