Re: Why the [SQU]?

I use:

:0fhw
* ^Subject:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
| NEWSUB=`echo $MATCH | perl -pe 's/^(re: *)?\[[^\] ]*\] */$1/gi'` &&\
  formail -i "Subject: $NEWSUB"

Kind of ugly, but it seems to do the job.

(yes, I know that's perl in there - my mail happens to be processed on a box
 that I can't get to directly, so it's the least common denominator)

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:49:14AM -0500, Rob Huffstedtler wrote:
> Which is exactly why I like having the prepend. I can tell at a glance
> where the mail is from without sorting it into another folder. Like the
> other gentleman, if I pre-sort my mail, I tend not to read anything that
> doesn't go into my inbox.
>
> If it bothers you that badly, you could always write a procmail recipe
> that would strip it off, giving you those 5 additional characters back.
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Chris Dillon wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Craig Fels wrote:
> >
> > > How, exactly, is adding [SQU] a disadvantage to anyone? It
> > > doesn't bother me, nor disallow me from doing ANYTHING.
> >
> > Quite simply, its cruft. It adds additional noise to subject lines,
> > as well as lower how much useful information can be put into the
> > subject line since in most (all?) cases there is a visible limit.
> > When you get as many pieces of mail a day as I do, the subject line
> > makes the difference between wether I read something or delete it.
> >
> >
> > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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