On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 03:58:09PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Yeah. I suggest never changing subject lines, because Gmail has the > nasty (mis-)feature of making such a response into a completely new > thread. I don't know if Google paid mail service behaves in the same > way.
If one uses Gmail with another client like mutt, then those don't get broken. I don't know about Thunderbird which I believe people use a lot. > So if you change Subject, please do include a URL to the previous thread > if necessary, for the benefit of people reading on Gmail. +1. > I wouldn't worry about this for any other individual email provider, but > Gmail is by far the largest fraction of subscribers :-( I guess this > shows just how much better Google made webmail systems than what existed > at the time. If something is free, you are the product, still I have to admit that Gmail is not especially bad. -- Michael
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