[Gllug] Greenhouse emissions (was Geforce2)

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, kieran at esperi.demon.co.uk said:
> You have a problem with your mailer.  It doesn't insert a "Re: " when
> you reply to posts.

WTF? There's one there.

>From the VM manual:

,----
|                                       There is an old convention of
| prepending the string `"Re: "' to the subject of replies if the string
| isn't present already.  VM supports this indirectly by providing the
| variable `vm-reply-subject-prefix'.  Its value should be a string to
| prepend to the subject of replies, if the string isn't present
| already.  A `nil' value means don't prepend anything to the subject
| (this is the default).
`----

The author has been involved in flamewars over this in the past; it's
his opinion that with the proliferation of mailers that can handle
threading, there's no real excuse for the `Re: ' prefix --- in practice
virtually all posts have one anyway (so it adds no real information;
certainly not given the existence of quote marks and attribution lines).

The only mailers I can think of that can't handle threading are elm
(solution: upgrade to mutt) and pine (solution: ban it from your system
as an unmaintainable steaming pile of nightmarish security holes).

;} ;}

> But I'm prepared to let you decide whether it's worth investigating, or
> taking action over.

Ditto, re the security nightmare on pine street :)

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 abducted by bunnies along their route, you've got a whole new problem.'
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