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Re: Tbird and square brackets in subject field - was - Re: Parenthesis or square brackets and "was"

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On 3/6/24 01:16, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 3/6/24 01:09, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 3/6/24 01:06, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 3/6/24 00:52, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>>>> On 6/1/24 23:02, 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.
>>>>
>>>> This is true.  I (on Thunderbird 115) had to restore the subject 
>>>> line after
>>>> Thunderbird modified it.  Do you know of a plugin or weird setting 
>>>> to make
>>>> it stop doing that?  Web searches were fruitless.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> A mob with torches and pitchforks approaches the castle.
>>>> "Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
>>>> "Yeah, disgusting, aren't they?"
>>>>
>>> I am using Tbird "115.11.0 (64-bit)" and, in checking, have found 
>>> that square brackets are apparently not molested in this version of 
>>> Tbird.
>>>
>>> In checking in my Inbox, for email from a mailing list that uses 
>>> mailing list name subject field prepending, I observed that the 
>>> GnuCash mailing list uses such prepending, and the subject line
>>> "Re: [GNC] Problem with New Account Creation"
>>> is apparently not molested by Tbird.
>>>
>>>
>>> Similarly, with this (the Debian users) list,
>>> "Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key, 
>>> Debian 8 sshd"
>>> and
>>> "Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?"
>>> appear to be unmolested by Tbird.
>>>
>>> Whilst I regard Tbird after v102.x, as a pile of faecal matter, 
>>> having been downgraded from v102.x (the higher the version number, 
>>> the greater the degree of downgrading), the reported problem 
>>> involving square brackets in the subject field, is not apparent on 
>>> this system, making me wonder whether the reported problem, is an 
>>> effect of either affected users' settings, or, desktop environments, 
>>> or, themes.
>>>
>>> ..
>>> Bret Busby
>>> Armadale
>>> West Australia
>>> (UTC+0800)
>>> ..............
>>>
>> Sorry - I should have changed the subject field value, in my last 
>> previous post, to more properly refer to where this thread has gone.
>>
>> ..
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>> (UTC+0800)
>> ..............
>>
> Similarly to the above examples; just came through - the subject field
> "[SECURITY] [DSA 5703-1] linux security update"
> is also unmolested by Tbird.
> 
> And, that has two sets of square brackets.
> 

Also, from the claws-mail users mailing list;
"Re: [Users] How to check if Bogofilter is still working?"

...

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West 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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