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| From | snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c, comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: How to change the Subject of a Usenet article |
| Date | 2023-09-09 09:57 +0100 |
| Organization | Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds |
| Message-ID | <1qgsbdu.bl5ryh9zaerrN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <uddvnt$3a9si$1@dont-email.me> <ude6v5$3av40$2@dont-email.me> <fVDKthnhfJ8657wgg@bongo-ra.co> <1qgqwud.1qo1i9s1j1n0cnN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <20230908200941.933@kylheku.com> |
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Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> wrote: > On 2023-09-08, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote: > > This will cause competent User Agents to automatically discard the > > (Was: Old Subject) part of the header when following up but maintain > > continuity of Subject in the thread list. > > Preesumably MacSoup (evidently the name of your user agent) does this? > See my adjacent reply to candycane. > Slrn isn't doing it; see Subject line. The (Was: ...) is intact. > > Is there an RFC for this > I'm sure there is but don't ask me which one. > > I have the slrn code in a buildable state, > so I will take look if it's mentioned in the code anywhere. > > In my opinion, if user agents were truly competent, then this entire > dance with (Was: ...) would be unnecessary. > > It should be a feature of the user agent's display that when > a parent article P is available and has subject line X, and > a child article C has subject line Y, the agent itself should > display C's subject line as, perhaps: > > Subject: Y > [Changed from: X] > > or something similar. > > Competence means doing something better in the UI with the available > data, produced by natural behavior, such as changing the subject without > mentioning the old subject in the subject line. > > If the users have to obey some convention to produce data, that is not > really competent. Users won't. > This is more like failure to use your car's turn indicators when making a lane change. -- ^Ï^. Sn!pe <https://youtu.be/_kqytf31a8E> My pet rock Gordon just is.
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