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