On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014 20:06:23 CEST, Karan Luthra wrote:
While my first go was at alternative 1, because who doesn't
want a neat looking subject line; After some discussion on IRC
with Jan and offline with Jai (darkapex), I saw the use-cases
for the information conveyed by multiple "Fwd"s in a subject
line. Sometimes it is good to know that the sender of a
forwarded message isn't the original recipient. Sometimes it is
good to know that this particular message has been to multiple
people (and how many) who pushed it forward.
While I agree on exposing the depth, there's (hopefully) no reason to not
compress the information.
"Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Foo Bar" has subotimal entropy. The "Fwd" information
degenerates into noise and clouds the subject.
"Fwd: Fw: Fwd: Foo Bar" is even worse in that regard ('cause the noise is more
noisy ;-)
Random suggestions:
Fwd: Foo Bar
Fwd:: Foo Bar
Fwd::: Foo Bar
Fwd:2 Foo Bar
Fwd:3 Foo Bar
Fwd:² Foo Bar
Fwd:³ Foo Bar
Fwd:4 Foo Bar
Things get uglier when a blank behind the colon is mandatory :-(
Fwd: #2: Foo Bar
Fwd: #3: Foo Bar
Following will likely "break" MUAs that compress "Fw[d]*:[\s]*"
Fwd#2: Foo Bar
Fwd#3: Foo Bar
Fwd(2): Foo Bar
Fwd(3): Foo Bar
Fwd[2]: Foo Bar
Fwd[3]: Foo Bar
Fwd/2: Foo Bar
Fwd/3: Foo Bar
Fwd²: Foo Bar
Fwd³: Foo Bar
Fwd(4): Foo Bar // or any other above alternative
Cheers,
Thomas
