14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
7:21 p.m.
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Rich Alderson wrote:
Actually, Mr. Cook, the standard for the last 35 years
or so has been to
change the subject line, with the old subject in SQUARE BRACKETS with the
characters "was: " prepended. Any decent newsreader or threading mail
reader knows how to deal with that, and threading is unbroken. What was
broken in the messages about which you complain is the substitution of
parentheses () for brackets [].
I have been using parentheses. I was unaware that square brackets was the
preferred form. I will try to remember to comply.
I have also always used the opening parenthesis, and left off the closing
one, since the history of the world drags on forever, and hopefully,
eventually the trailing end of that will get truncated before it becomes
too many extraneous lines.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com