[Rik Brown]

Our killfile very often ends up killing the first message in a thread. In those cases, successive messages which have a "Re: " in the message title create new threads such as "Re: Here is my message...".

However, if there is no prior "Here is my message..." message on my system, I would rather NNTP_GW remove the "Re: " and just make the first message "Here is my message..." to which successive replies would append.

Has anyone already written a routine to accomplish this (I assume it would only take 5-10 lines of code) or is there an experienced PHP programmer willing to write it out in a few minutes time?

Thanks. -- Rik

PS:

Frankly, I would just assume remove the "Re: " from all messages as its not necessary for vb. One only needs it when replying back to Usenet.

Update: If you wish to remove the "Re: " from post titles and thread titles, below is a thread at vbulletin.com that shows how to accomplish this retroactively by updating the forum mysql database (backup first, of course):

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206982

Of course, if someone could adjust gateway.php to accomplish this during the import phase, that would be a better solution.