[IAEP] Culled the subject prefix

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Wed May 21 02:16:34 CEST 2008


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 21:05 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
>>> +1 to a visual prefix, even though I know it puts me on the wrong side of 
>>> the geek line.  :)
>> Ok, guys, the short prefix seems to win :-)
> 
> Ew. Removing it completely would have been better. The non-geeks can
> always add it for themselves if they want to see it; it's a lot harder
> to _remove_.

It's really easy to remove with procmail:

:0 f
* ^Subject:.*\[IAEP\]
| sed -re 's/^Subject:(.*)\[IAEP\] (.*)$/Subject:\1\2/'

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