Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-14 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:59:38PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi David, > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 08:46:28PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > > Most people do not use a good MUA. The email interfaces of the top three > > > mailbox provi

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 08:46:28PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > Most people do not use a good MUA. The email interfaces of the top three > > mailbox providers split threads when the subject line changes, a > > misfeature I was

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Bret Busby wrote: > > 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.. ... > If a person interested in the thread, from the wording of the Subject field, > reads the messages in the thread, th

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-14 Thread Chris Green
Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + > 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. > How do I do that via the Gmane/Usenet gateway? -- Chris Green ·

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > 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 only creates a

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > 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 only creates a new thread if you have an inferior MUA. Those respecting

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 07:53, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and have the ability to show an em

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: > > headers. > > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what > >

To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and > have the ability to show an email 'thread'. I use mutt which d

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread David Wright
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 + Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > > > > > Glad to hear it. > > >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:30:19PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Many list servers serve up their archives with subject line and other > information but not the body. By modifying the subject appropriately one > makes it possible for a reader to quickly scan the subject, making > reading the enti

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:28:55 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > 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.. Th

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:47:04 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Also, the use of prepending, involving the "square brackets", > generally indicates the name of a mailing list, for example, [GNC] > for GNUcash. OK, then how would you do it? "Re: British English has disappeared: SOLVED"? > If a person in

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
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 + 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.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + > 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

[SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + 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. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/