🚀 go-pugleaf

Adding to the wishlist for SNews (that recently appeared in
d.i.developers: note that this is posted there, and to d.i.s.pc, with
follow-ups to d.i.d) there's one buglet that's really annoying.

It would seem that certain other newsreaders are malconfigured, such that
they generate the subject line of a follow-up by prepending "Re:",
without a trailing space.  SNews generates the more usual "Re: " (which
looks much nicer).  However, it also seems to *expect* that format only.
Since it threads on Subject and not through the Message-ID, one can get
the ludicrous situation of having two separate threads going, one
entitled as in the original posting, such as "Wishlist addition for
Snews", and another attached to the first follow-up from someone with the
broken subject generator, "Re:Wishlist addition for Snews".  Since proper
threading newsreaders don't notice this, the confusion becomes even
greater for those with subject-threading readers such as SNews.

Could Snews be changed to recognize "Re:" at the beginning of the subject
line, with or without a following space.  It should continue to
*generate* the trailing space, of course.


-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                       "A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"    
                                                          --  Samuel Johnson