[Rik Brown]

For aesthetic reasons, I prefer not to have the "Re :" in the subject line created by incoming Usenet threads/posts even if it is a reply. vBulletin doesn't use such formatting and any reply post leaving our system via the gateway will get the "Re: " pre-appended to the subject line for Usenet compatability.

If you likewise wish to remove the incoming "Re: " from the subject line, find the following line in gateway.php:

PHP Code:

 $subject = htmlspecialchars(trim($message['subject'])); 


After the above line, simply insert the following:

PHP Code:

if (substr($subject, 0, 4) == 'Re: '){
$subject = substr_replace($subject, '', 0, 4);
} 


If you wish to change your entire message database to remove any prior "Re: " in both threads and posts, just look for my prior post #396 in this thread which indicates the two mySQL queries to do so. Once done, all your threads/posts will be in this same format.

Again, this is only an aesthetic choice for me and shouldn't be considered a bug fix. I hope others might find it useful. If anyone sees any code conflict here, please advise.

Regards. -- Rik

ps: I'm not a PHP programmer so anything I say must be taken at your own risk. Backup your database first. But I've been using this change for several weeks now and all appears working fine.

After the above coding, NNTP_GW attempts to match the incoming post to vb threads "by reference" or "by subject." I'd prefer to make that a single lookup by subject at a future time as threading is already mangled if you are using a killfile that breaks thread sequences. Note, for example, that if the first message in a thread was deleted by your killfile, message #2 will now start a new thread without any "Re: " in it.