On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Rich Alderson wrote:
If you want to change a subject please start a new thread, and if you
wish you can give the new thread a subject line such as "New Subject (was
Old Subject)" to reflect its origin.
Actually, Mr. Cook, the standard for the last 35 years or so has been t
On 15 September 2016 at 01:28, Rich Alderson
wrote:
> Any decent newsreader or threading mail
> reader knows how to deal with that, and threading is unbroken.
Would that this were true.
Of course, many would say that Gmail is not a decent MUA; however,
it's the best for my needs these days. Eve
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Not the standard, but a convention.
>
> The standard is documented in RFC 5322 section 3.6.4 (and dates back to
> RFC822).
I think you may mean RFC 5322 section 3.6.5, which does give a "MAY"
suggestion for the use of "Re: " at the start
Actually, Mr. Cook, the standard for the last 35 years or so has been to
change the subject line, with the old subject in SQUARE BRACKETS with the
characters "was: " prepended.
Not the standard, but a convention.
The standard is documented in RFC 5322 section 3.6.4 (and dates back to
RFC822).
Rich Alderson wrote:
> Actually, Mr. Cook, the standard for the last 35 years or so has been to
> change the subject line, with the old subject in SQUARE BRACKETS with the
> characters "was: " prepended. Any decent newsreader or threading mail
> reader knows how to deal with that, and threading is
From: Dale H. Cook
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:52 AM
> Please do not change the subject line in a thread. The subject line of
> this thread has been changed twice since it began as "68K Macs with MacOS
> 7.5 still in production use..." When you change a subject line the header
> informat
