At 10:25 AM -0400 7/29/02, Anne Avaro is rumored to have typed:

How can I stop the pre-customised subject to be duplicated in the subject line ?

Teach your users how to properly filter their mail so this useless and distracting subject field munge isn't necessary?

(*sigh*) Ok, so you're determined to make your list look like Yahoo or the other amateur lists, and force those of us who find it distracting to filter the d*mned thing off. See:

http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/SmartList-FAQ.html#Section_8.3

...since this issue is CLEARLY discussed in the FAQ.

BTW, Peter, I disagree with the FAQ that if someone is determined to do such a silly thing that it be done in s10. It makes more sense to add it in s20, after all other processing is done. Why? Well, if you have a digested version connected to the list, we've discussed at length here how to _remove_ the darned munge in the digested rc.local.s00. Better, IMHO, to, in rc.local.s20:

# Send to the digest BEFORE we do anything stupid...it will send it back to # us, but that's ok since we will ignore the duplication :0 c |/path/to/flist digested-listname

# # NOW munge the subject, append a header/footer, and otherwise # screw up the mail beyond all recognition... #

This has the added benefit that we don't have to subscribe the digest list to the undigested list's dist file and waste a call to sendmail to deliver the mail that we can easily pipe directly into flist; it also means the additional Received: header fields caused by mailing the file across the directory aren't an issue. (I can't figure out why something this simple isn't included in the Manual file as The Right Way To Do It.)

Charlie