on 7/10/02 12:28 PM, Jim Witte at jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us wrote:
>
>> {Cleaned up the subject line... Has anyone traced the origin of the whole
>> 'subject line appended with the "in reply to" line and containing
>> quoted-printable' problem??}
>
>
> I assume the problem you're referring to is that a message goes is sent as
> "Blah" then gets bouced back to everyone on the list as "[NTLK] Blah" and then
> when someone replies it's "Re: [NTLK] Blah" which then turns into "[NTLK] Re:
> [NTLK] Blah" and so on (kind of like a black hole, except BHs can't be
> edited.. Okay, you can see I haven't had my coffee today)
>
> Does the list software have a way to put a regexp filter that would take
> anything whose subject line started with "Re: [NTLK]" (case and whitespace
> insensative) and strip out the [NTLK].
>
> Jim
>
Actually, no. (Although that, too, is an annoyance.)
I'm referring to the subject lines where the non-alphabetic characters get
turned into %xy (where xy is a number). But, most especially, I'm referring
to subject lines where the original subject is post-pended with
"-In-Reply-To:" followed by some long garbage string. These have been
plaguing the list occasionally for a year or so and nobody seems to know
what to do about it. It appears to me that some buggy software somewhere is
losing the line break between the subject line and the in-reply-to line
(which, when I look at the headers, is the very next line).
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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