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Re: lynx-dev Version hides real subject in mailing list


From: David Woolley
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Version hides real subject in mailing list
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:33:26 +0000 (GMT)

> Finally, due to suggestions to mbrs of THIS list, I've switched
> from plain unix "mail" to mutt.

Someone recently claimed, on this list, that mutt is incapable of setting
correct MIME content type information, whereas the Elm (not Pine) that
I use is.

> Note the cleverness in ignoring the "Re:" when building
> the sort-key.  (This is mutt out-of-the-box, I believe;
> certainly I myself did not set this up, am just using
> what's avail on netcom (but the newest mutt, though)).

I don't know of a mail program that does sort by subject that doesn't
behave like this, although I don't have much experience of commercial
ones.  The problem tends to come from programs that think it is clever
to localise the Re: into the user's language.  (I've seen some BW: subjects
recently.)

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