[FFmpeg-devel] Filtering clueless-user spam from the lists

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:03:38AM +0000, Ian Caulfield wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 12:43 AM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> >
> > - Mail without Re: in subject but containing In-Reply-To: header
> >   (thread hijacking)
> 
> Would it also be worth checking for "was" in the subject, for cases
> when new threads are spawned from old ones?

Normal practice I've seen either puts Re: at the beginning still when
changing the subject line, or leaves the old subject (Re: ...) in
parentheses or brackets after adding the new one...

Rich