Allegedly, on or about 28 November 2013, Ian Malone sent:
> It turns out if you use the 'edit subject' option gmail drops the
> references and in-reply-to (even if you don't actually edit the
> subject).
I didn't even know how you would do that with gmail (nor do I
particularly care), though I eventually found that option after hearing
it mentioned by name. But every (*) way that I could obviously reply to
a message through their interface, worked properly.
* When using webmail interfaces, there's usually a "reply" button
somewhere when you're reading a message. Or, one can click on the
subject line in the message list, or the message that you're reading,
and that will begin a reply to it. All of those sorts of things work.
Even some standalone mail clients work in all those ways.
But, generally, with any type of mail client, if you click on an email
address, you just create a new message to that address, not a reply
(nothing is quoted, and there's no reply-management threading headers).
I don't think one could accidentally use that (edit subject) replying
technique, it's highly convoluted to get to it. Any newbie who didn't
quite know how to do email would have found one of the far more obvious
ways to reply, and used them. And I certainly don't see any reason why
someone would do it ("edit subject" replying), unless they actually were
intending to change the subject line (which we've seen no evidence of).
So I concur with the conclusion that it's being done on purpose, to be
annoying.
If the perpetrator actually wants to participate in the mailing list
properly, then reply properly. I'll be avoiding those nuisance mangled
replies in future.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
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