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 (amaca...@debian.org) > Sorry for violating the rule. Curious users may test if their MUAs recognize > "(was: ...)" in the subject and remove old part. > > >
