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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.
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