On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 10:02:58AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
If you change subject
or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email accordingly so that this can be clearly seen.
For example: New question [WAS Old topic]
Are square brackets intentional here? E.g. thunderbird strips "(was:"
subject part from response subject. Perhaps Gnus may treat square brackets
as well. I have no idea concerning other mailers.
No - the square brackets are an example :)
Square brackets can be noticed, perhaps, and the effort to type them may
be worth the distinctiveness, but what I really wanted was to make the distinction visually clear so that the reader would notice it..
I routinely type ammedments to the subject in square brackets and
add WAS in upper case so that this is immediately apparent in a long
email thread. Whatever your mailer does is fine but it needs to stand out clearly. Similarly, whenever I reply to something on behalf of the
Community Team, I add that in square brackets to show that it is
distinct.
New topic - brackets or parentheses (WAS: Debian-user Monthly FAQ)
might be appropriate here. So that email subjects don't go beyond 72 characters, you may always need to abbreviate the amended subject.
[WAS: WAS: WAS (previous subject)] would be too many levels of off-topic discussion - but this discussion is still, just about, on topic.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
(
amacater@debian.org)
Sorry for violating the rule. Curious users may test if their MUAs recognize "(was: ...)" in the subject and remove old part.
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