GNU bug report logs - #72442
31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle international message reply subject prefixes and insults users

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Message #63 received at 72442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#72442: 31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle
 international message reply subject prefixes and insults users
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:21:32 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

> tags 72442 fixed
> close 72442 31.1
> quit
>
> This has been working fine for me for a while, and if it breaks I have
> time to fix it this week 😸
>
> Closing.
> Committed as 315519fa7c8
>
> Robert

The message manual is still tell insulting users and/or is inaccurate now:

> ‘message-subject-re-regexp’
>     Responses to messages have subjects that start with ‘Re: ’.  This
>     is _not_ an abbreviation of the English word “response”, but it
>     comes from the Latin “res”, and means “in the matter of”.  Some
>     illiterate nincompoops have failed to grasp this fact, and have
>     “internationalized” their software to use abominations like ‘Aw: ’
>     (“antwort”) or ‘Sv: ’ (“svar”) instead, which is meaningless and
>     evil.  However, you may have to deal with users that use these evil
>     tools, in which case you may set this variable to a regexp that
>    matches these prefixes.  Myself, I just throw away non-compliant
>     mail.


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