On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 04:52:01PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > BTW could you not write part of your post in the Subject line: > in order to respond to that specific part of the post, the > replier has either to top post, or paste the Subject line > back into the correct place. That's ignoring the fact that > many MUAs will truncate the Subject in their index list, so > users won't see what the post is about.
Agreed. Email etiquette suggests that a Subject: header should never be longer than fits on one line of the terminal (and terminals are 80 columns wide, you heathens). With the "Subject: " string taking 9 characters, and allowing another 4 characters for "Re: " and one more character to prevent line-wrapping when writing to the 80th column, this means your Subject: should be a maximum of 65 characters. Shorter is better.