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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Proliferation of "Re^n:" in subject lines
Message-ID: <12902@diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 89 16:30:24 GMT
References: <272@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <89Jul2.110144edt.10370@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <WISNER.89Jul2113412@anableps.berkeley.edu> <3583@looking.on.ca>
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In news.misc wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>Agreed. Hunt NN down, take it out, and stomp it. 
  
Alternatively, every nn user in the world could apply the following trivial
patch.  It's certainly the first thing *I* did after bringing nn up!

*** /tmp/,RCSt1a11324	Mon Jul  3 12:27:17 1989
--- answer.c	Mon Jul  3 12:25:56 1989
***************
*** 367,376 ****
--- 367,380 ----
      
      fputs("Subject: ", t);
  
+ #if VIRGIN
      if (re == 0) 
  	fputs("Re: ", t);
      else if (re > 0)
  	fprintf(t, "Re^%d: ", re + 1);
+ #else
+     fputs("Re: ", t);
+ #endif
  
      if (prefix) {
  	fputs(prefix, t);