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  • Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

    From Bret Busby@21:1/5 to Bret Busby on Sun Jun 2 05:20:01 2024
    On 2/6/24 11:13, Bret Busby wrote:
    On 2/6/24 11:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
    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.

    My despair and agony increase every time I hear about some new
    abomination
    that people's mail user agents perform by default.

    *face palms, shakes head*


    I simply use single hyphen; for example
    abomination - was Re: yeti another snowman


    or, more appropriately (because it is an abomni nation)

    abomination - was Re: yeti another country of snowmen

    ...

    ....
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    Western Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    .................

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  • From Bret Busby@21:1/5 to Greg Wooledge on Sun Jun 2 05:30:01 2024
    On 2/6/24 11:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
    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.

    My despair and agony increase every time I hear about some new abomination that people's mail user agents perform by default.

    *face palms, shakes head*


    I simply use single hyphen; for example
    abomination - was Re: yeti another snowman

    ....
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    Western Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    .................

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  • From Bret Busby@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 2 19:10:01 2024
    On 3/6/24 00:52, [email protected] wrote:
    On 6/1/24 23:02, 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.

    This is true.  I (on Thunderbird 115) had to restore the subject line after Thunderbird modified it.  Do you know of a plugin or weird setting to make it stop doing that?  Web searches were fruitless.

    --
    A mob with torches and pitchforks approaches the castle.
    "Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
    "Yeah, disgusting, aren't they?"

    I am using Tbird "115.11.0 (64-bit)" and, in checking, have found that
    square brackets are apparently not molested in this version of Tbird.

    In checking in my Inbox, for email from a mailing list that uses mailing
    list name subject field prepending, I observed that the GnuCash mailing
    list uses such prepending, and the subject line
    "Re: [GNC] Problem with New Account Creation"
    is apparently not molested by Tbird.


    Similarly, with this (the Debian users) list,
    "Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key,
    Debian 8 sshd"
    and
    "Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?"
    appear to be unmolested by Tbird.

    Whilst I regard Tbird after v102.x, as a pile of faecal matter, having
    been downgraded from v102.x (the higher the version number, the greater
    the degree of downgrading), the reported problem involving square
    brackets in the subject field, is not apparent on this system, making me
    wonder whether the reported problem, is an effect of either affected
    users' settings, or, desktop environments, or, themes.

    ..
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    West Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    ..............

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