In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
[...]

As we're talking Usenet, Netiquette, etc. a little tidbit you might
not be aware of. Not criticism of any sort, just helpful advice:

Subject: What is/are "Groove"? Now VanguardLH

Also for this, a change of the 'Subject:' line, there is a Usenet
'standard', namely:

Subject: New subject (was: Old subject)

i.e. specifically:

Subject: VanguardLH (was: What is/are "Groove"?)

Compliant newsreaders will remove the ' (was: What is/are "Groove"?)'
bit from subsequent responses, so it becomes:

Subject: VanguardLH

Well, I never knew that! Thanks. Bit like the "-- " delimiter.

Most compliant newsreaders will also recognize/handle local language
versions of 'was' and recognize/handle other delimiters than '(' and ')'.

In my newsreader - tin -, this part of .tin/tinrc handles all that:

# A regular expression that tin will use to find Subject suffixes
# which will be removed when replying or posting followup.
strip_was_regex=.\(([Ww]a[rs]|[Bb]y[l3]o):.*\)\s*$

Elementary, dear Watson! :-)

I see "was" (English) and "war" (German) in that, and (I think) I can
see "by", though no other languages.

I hope this is of use to you/anyone.

I'll try to remember the format (-:
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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