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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Don Armstrong' <don@donarmstrong.com>,
	'Miles Bader' <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: followup to bug report not included in bug tracker; diverseautomatic Subject lines; ACK noise
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:31:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abhemncm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004801c8d3d5$35d97e40$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>

Drew Adams writes:

 > If it's truly impossible to use a different header field or the message body,
 > then append; don't prepend. Prepending junk throws off sorting by subject.

Sure, but all that's required to fix that is to update the junk-prefix
strippers provided by the major MUAs.  We already have to strip Re:,
Re[\d], Fwd:, AWT:, [listname: postnumber], etc etc.

As a data point, personally, for bug lists I *like* having the prefix,
as long as it's short.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-21 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-18  7:13 followup to bug report not included in bug tracker; diverse automatic Subject lines; ACK noise Drew Adams
2008-06-18 13:48 ` bug#117: " Stefan Monnier
2008-06-18 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-18 19:21 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-21 16:43   ` followup to bug report not included in bug tracker; diverseautomatic " Drew Adams
2008-06-21 17:47     ` Miles Bader
2008-06-21 19:26       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-21 19:36         ` Drew Adams
2008-06-21 20:47           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-21 22:58             ` Drew Adams
2008-06-21 21:11           ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-21 19:30       ` Drew Adams
2008-06-21 20:48         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-21 22:31         ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-06-21 22:58           ` Drew Adams
2008-06-22  3:03             ` Peaceful Coexistence with an Issue Tracker Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-23  7:14               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-21 21:00     ` followup to bug report not included in bug tracker; diverseautomatic Subject lines; ACK noise Jason Rumney
2008-06-21 22:53       ` Drew Adams
2008-06-22  3:55     ` Don Armstrong

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