I'd suspect that the %20's and similar in subject lines is actually
related in one way or another to web-based email. Web browsers often
use %20 to substitute as a space, and if a webmail program is used to
read and reply to a message, there's a pretty decent chance that it can
cause that. So if anyone here makes a post and others se a %20 in it,
let's find out if the poster is using a webmail program.
-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Eric L. Strobel
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:44 PM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Growing subject lines in replies
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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