Marko Schulz <in6x059 / public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:


> This problem is on the mailinglist too, and the '[ruby-talk:#####]'
> that gets inserted into the subject by the mailinglist software makes
> it worse: The mail clients cannot reconnect the threads by the
> subject. I wanted to write a filter that cleans the subject for some
> time, but was always too lazy. Advanced mail readers such as GNUS
> probably can be taught how to reconnect the threads without messing
> with the subject.

Just put this into your ~/.gnus (may be done with customize, too):

(setq gnus-list-identifiers '("\\[ruby-talk:[0-9]+\\]"))

Gnus then strips of the identifiers but the threading doesn't improve
very much :(

\\[ and \\] is needed to mask the special characters [ and ].  If you
have more special headers you want to be stripped of, just add more
strings to the list.

Regards,
Sascha


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