I'd object to the proposal to add the "FW: " characters to the default. Space is at a premium in modern Subject lines, especially with the prevalence of mobile devices that have limited screen real estate, and cutting out 3 characters is very undesirable. I think it's pretty clear from context that an email address followed by a colon is indicative of forwarding — email addresses are identities and an identity prefixing something else (such as here, a Subject line), has good affordances for associating that identity with what follows, and that's the essence of what forwarding is.
Indeed, I sometimes wonder if we'd be better off without the leading "[", but I haven't brought myself to try to save that single character. -- jh...@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:24 PM ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ <mailingl...@chiraag.me> wrote: > 12021/06/39 09:27.23 ನಲ್ಲಿ, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users < > mutt-users@mutt.org> ಬರೆದರು: > > When I foward my mutt-composed email, I have something like the > following, which I believe is the default behaviour: > > > > [mutt-users@mutt.org: Email subject] > > > > which I think is very nice because it gives the recipient an idea of > whether the originator of this email is someone s/he should even bother > reading from. > > > > However, most e-mailers are not mutt, so most people probably have no > idea what this means. > > > > May I suggest the following default that clarifies better what is going > on, or something like that, in the subject line? > > > > [FW: from mutt-users@mutt.org: Email subject] > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks a bunch! > > > > GT. > > > > Ooh, that gets an upvote from me (I'm also going to go set that variable > in my config...even though I don't forward many emails, it's useful to have > it set when I do). > > - Chiraag > -- > ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ > Pronouns: he/him/his >
