[Mailman-Developers] pipermail: subjects with "Re[2]:" are not recognized as reply

[Nigel Metheringham]

heinrich@wh9.tu-dresden.de said:
> seems like the "The Bat" mailer inserts a counter into the "Re:"
> subject line so that "Re[2]:blah blah" or "Re[3]: more blah blah" show
> up. these are not cought by Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py and
> therefore  are not sorted into the thread that they belong to. 

What goes around, comes around.  This came up in 94/95 or so with the 
nn newsreader.  After an outcry and much quoting of RFCs nn backed down 
and stopped doing it.  I suggest someone deal with the author of "The 
bat" in the same way.

	Nigel.

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