On 03/06/2024 00:19, Bret Busby wrote:
On 3/6/24 01:16, Bret Busby wrote:
On 3/6/24 01:09, Bret Busby wrote:
On 3/6/24 01:06, Bret Busby wrote:
On 6/1/24 23:02, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
For example: New question [WAS Old topic]
Are square brackets intentional here? E.g. thunderbird strips "(was:"
subject part from response subject.
[...]
"Re: [GNC] Problem with New Account Creation"
is apparently not molested by Tbird.
[...]
"Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key,
Debian 8 sshd"
[...]
"[SECURITY] [DSA 5703-1] linux security update"
[...]
"Re: [Users] How to check if Bogofilter is still working?"
Relax. In the case of thunderbird the pattern is namely " (was:".
It is not configurable, but I do not expect significant rate of false
positives. I do not see any problem with this behavior as the default.
When subject is changed you see both old and new variants. In follow-ups
it allows to keep subject concise without additional efforts from users.
Messages still have links to all messages in the thread in the
References header, so you may find original subject if you need it.
UI may offer to revert subject to the original one and I would consider
it as an improvement.
Regexp in Emacs includes square bracket and variation of case. However
there are more tunables:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/gnus/message.el#n321
- `message-subject-trailing-was-query'
- `message-subject-trailing-was-ask-regexp'
- `message-subject-trailing-was-regexp'
I accidentally noticed stripping old subject part in another mailing
list, so I was curious if "[WAS" in the FAQ follows another convention
than thunderbird implements. Andrew clarified that it is just an example
and it is intended for humans.
It seems thunderbird may add "(was:", but I have never used message
templates.
