Posted by
Graham Perrin on
Sep 15, 2009; 6:16am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/subject-of-message-not-shown-in-threaded-and-list-views-tp3636715p3646737.html
Hugo <Nabble> wrote
This bug is very interesting. The subject isn't displayed because it ends with the subject of the parent message.
Thanks. With the explanation, I'm happy to treat this as resolved.
Or would you like to do anything further on this, at a (much) later date?
"Re:" is "Res:" in portuguese. So we can't parse the sentence and try to discover if …
Understood. Around the same time that I read <
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-koch-subject-tags-considered-00> (one of the IETF documents that prompted my post re:
Subject prefixes, tags, in square brackets) I raced through some of the documents about
Re:
My list <
http://www.diigo.com/list/grahamperrin/etiquette?v=p> includes a reference to <
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322> and it's probably that draft RFC 5322 that I recall.
Now: ignoring the fact that some of those documents are drafts and/or expired: recently I often cut the 'Re: ' from subject lines of replies. Nabble web UI behaves perfectly in this situation and happily, no complaints from SMTP recipients. I take the latter as a sign that:
* increasingly, people use mail readers that are properly designed to thread
without total reliance on the subject line
— I assume that
Google Mail still falls short in this area (that their drop of the 'Beta' tag has not made it more compliant).
Personally, I'm never shy of using a subject line that's specific, or long. A good subject line greatly increases the chances of things being rediscovered, and quickly understood, months or years after posting.
Looking ahead, wondering …OT from Nabble, I wonder whether things like Google Wave will:
* increase subject line laziness
* make people less tolerant/understanding of good subject lines
* etc..