Subject: [970] Re: Numbering messages

From: "Michael J. Corrigan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 15:01:01 -0800

> > 
> > Does anyone else find subject lines like:
> >   "  Re:  Re:  Re:  ..."
> > 
> > to be not very useful?  I apologize if this has been discussed before, but 
> > is there any reason to number the messages?
> >
> Yes, and I'm wondering why the need to number messages can't be met
> with an X-header instead of polluting the subject line.
> 
> Dan
> 

If you filter your mail use a sed command like:

|/bin/sed -e 's/\[[0-9]*\]//g' -e 's/R[eE]:.*R[eE]:/Re:/'