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Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

From Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"
Date 2024-06-02 05:20 +0200
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On 2/6/24 11:13, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 2/6/24 11:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 10:02:58AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
>>> On 02/06/2024 02:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>>>> If you change subject
>>>> or emphasis in mid-thread, please change the subject line on your email
>>>> accordingly so that this can be clearly seen.
>>>>
>>>> For example: New question [WAS Old topic]
>>>
>>> Are square brackets intentional here? E.g. thunderbird strips "(was:"
>>> subject part from response subject. Perhaps Gnus may treat square 
>>> brackets
>>> as well. I have no idea concerning other mailers.
>>
>> My despair and agony increase every time I hear about some new 
>> abomination
>> that people's mail user agents perform by default.
>>
>> *face palms, shakes head*
>>
> 
> I simply use single hyphen; for example
> abomination - was Re: yeti another snowman
> 

or, more appropriately (because it is an abomni nation)

abomination - was Re: yeti another country of snowmen

...

....
Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-06-01 22:10 +0200
  Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" (was: Re: Monthly FAQ for  Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501)) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-02 05:10 +0200
    Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-06-02 05:20 +0200
    Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" (was: Re: Monthly FAQ  for Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501)) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-02 05:20 +0200
      Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-06-02 05:30 +0200
    Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" (was: Re: Monthly FAQ  for Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501)) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-06-02 12:10 +0200
    Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" (was: Re: Monthly FAQ for  Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20240501)) eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-02 19:00 +0200
      Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-06-02 19:10 +0200
        Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re:  Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-06-02 19:20 +0200
          Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re:  Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-03 05:30 +0200
        Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re:  Parenthesis or square brackets and "was" Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-06-02 19:20 +0200
        Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re: Parenthesis or  square brackets and "was" Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-06-02 19:20 +0200

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