On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 07:47:04 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/1/25 07:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 +0000 Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > > > > > Glad to hear it. > > > > > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. > > > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > > solved..
It doesn't break the thread unless your client is not honouring RFC822 headers. > Also, the use of prepending, involving the "square brackets", > generally indicates the name of a mailing list, for example, [GNC] for > GNUcash. I don't recall seeing any posts here with [DEBIAN…]. There are easier ways of filtering list posts with headers other than the subject line. > If the objective is to cause gratuitous confusion, then, go ahead and > use the prepending [SOLVED]. It is as beneficial as using a blank > Subject line, or starting a new thread, with the Subject line being > only the word "Help". Help what? "Help me find my lost dog"? "Help me > overthrow the government"? Help me tie my shoelaces"? Subject: Re: [solved] How do I attach this problem … … Subject: Help Subject: You find these confusing to tell apart? > If a person interested in the thread, from the wording of the Subject > field, reads the messages in the thread, then, the person will see the > message where the original poster advises that the problem is solved. The threads in this list frequently get so vast, and bifurcate so many times, that you can't really expect future readers to work their way through all of the posts just on the off chance that there may be a solution somewhere near the end of one subthread or another. Cheers, David.
