[Mailman-Users] Re: multiple line prefixes

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Sun Nov 26 05:13:53 CET 2000


On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:49:13 +0200 
Christel Nyman <christel.nyman at co.inet.fi> wrote:

> "My list for translators from Finnish into Swedish was recently
> moved from a majordomo server to a *Mailman* one."

...

> I know, of course, what "Re" means, only I have no way of altering
> the Swedish and Finnish e-mail clients my list members use. If
> what you say goes for Mailman lists as well, one way to handle the
> problem of headlines growing to long would be to ask my list
> members using Finnish or Swedish e-mail clients to wipe off the
> "Vastaus" or "SV" part when answering. It is possible but would
> distort the archive hierarchy, so I don´t like the idea.  Any
> other remedies?

Mailman currently supports divers forms of the english standard Re:
prefix.  You can patch it to support other prefixes, but that is not 
a default option, or a default configurable option.  

I recommend the mailman support lists for further discussion of this
(I've crossed this message to mailman-users).  .

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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