[Mailman-Developers] Re: Please stop the cross posting

[Christian Tismer]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "CT" == Christian Tismer <tismer@appliedbiometrics.com> writes:
> 
>     CT> I will also propose to change Mailman to handle this
>     CT> in a better way. My own patched version on Starship
>     CT> never prepends the list name if it can be matched in the
>     CT> "re" already.
> 
> I thought Mailman already does this too.  I'll double check.  Chris,
> you might want to send your patches to mailman-developers@python.org

Well, I had a look:
New Mailman does this:

        prefix = self.subject_prefix
        if not subj:
            msg.SetHeader('Subject', '%s(no subject)' % prefix)
        elif not re.match("(re:? *)?" + re.escape(self.subject_prefix),
                          subj, re.I):
            msg.SetHeader('Subject', '%s%s' % (prefix, subj))
        if self.anonymous_list:

This is insufficient for cross-posts which are replied to
from a different list.
I think my string.find approach is crude, simple, but exactly
the right thing. Forget about seldom possible missing prefixes...

ciao - chris

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