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From: mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <521@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 11 Oct 89 03:11:24 GMT
References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP> <11521@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6118@ficc.uu.net> <11527@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <40005@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
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In <40005@bu-cs.BU.EDU> tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
> nn could pass these header lines to inews:
> 	Subject: Re: ORIGINAL TEXT
> 	X-NN-Re-Count: 2
> or whatever the count is.  [...]
> 
> When nn sees an X-NN-Re-Count: header line.  It would NOT display it,
> but would display the Subject line as:
>         Subject: Re^2: ORIGINAL TEXT
> or whatever the count is.  Note that this is NOT the Subject line in
> the news spool file.

Why not just have NN count the number of Message-IDs in the
"References:" header?

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