Richard Neill wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >In the future please start a new message for a new thread of
> >discussion.  When you reply to old messages from three months ago
> >those of us who actually keep months worth of email see the message
> >threaded with the previous discussion about variables and subshells.
> >If anyone has killed that thread then the continuation is also killed.
> 
> D'oh! Sorry about that. I had always thought that editing the subject 
> line was what changed the thread, rather than some internal state 
> variable in the mail-client. I stand corrected.

Mail uses In-Reply-To: and References: headers.  By the time you have
deleted all of them it is easier to start a new message.

> BTW, doesn't bash have a bugzilla?

GNU projects tend to use Savannah.  But this isn't universial.

  https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bash

Bob


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