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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 01:09, 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.

..
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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