In the immortal words of Sam Varshavchik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> >We use a ticketing system which tracks solely on the basis of a [xxx.com
> >#nnn] string in the subject line. Thus, when replied from sqwebmail,
> >correspondence that should go into an existing ticket causes a new ticket
> >to be opened.
> 
> It is not wise for "ticketing systems" to mimic behavior that's been used 
> by mailing list processord for a long time before those "ticketign systems" 
> were invented.

Er, that cuts both ways.  The first ticketing/helpdesk/CRM/whatever
system that I personally touched which used this behavior was BBN's
homegrown ticketing system in 1993, which itself dated back into the
mid-80s easily, and thus predates any presently popular UNIX MLM I can
think of except perhaps majordomo1.

As a matter of abstract principle, I'm a little dubious about the idea
of an MUA arbitrarily munging subject lines outside of the user's
control.  As a matter of concrete fact, this behavior will render
sqwebmail annoying-to-useless for anybody who has to interact with RT,
Remedy, TTWeb, Bugzilla, or about a dozen other similarly ubiquitous
systems.

Also, what's the advantage of removing the bracketed text even when
replying to mailing lists?  It's been a long, long time since I ran
into an MLM which was prone to stacking up the list tags.

-n

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