Re: A mailing list not being recognized as such

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:52:51AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
[Some text about the Re: prefix in email Subject headers]
> Mutt has some builtin support for handling / cleaning that up IIRC, via
> the $reply_regexp setting. If you communicate with a lot of people who
> use non-standard ones like Aw, IMO, it's better to adjust this setting
> than to just kill it all with fire.

Interestingly enough the 'Aw' prefix is even hardcoded in mutt code.
Looks like Germans had a lasting impact on the world here.

I would still be interested to know why this was added to mutt.