On 02/04/2025 05:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I see the changing of title or subject to add things like "SOLVED" is
not included in the FAQ.
I am neutral to this recommendations. Just some considerations...
I rarely use Gmail web UI, but this time I was curious enough to check
its behavior.
I would not recommend editing subject in Gmail web UI to add "solved".
Sometimes In-Reply-To and References headers are lost. So there is no
guarantee that the thread will not be broken. (Perhaps closing compose
popup and resuming the draft later affects behavior. General impression
is that it is rather fragile.)
When reading mail, minor subject changes like "solved" are hidden within
a conversation. Subject is rendered once above messages. So efforts to
mark a message may not be noticed.
Again when reading mail, if subject is changed almost completely: "Old"
to "New (was: Old)" to "New" with "(was: ...)" stripped by e.g.
Thunderbird or Emacs; then the thread is split into 3 conversations,
threading headers are not respected.
Currently "solved" on this mailing list are mostly used by users with
"From" addresses other than gmail. Most messages with "solved" from
gmail are composed in Thunderbird (a few have Evolution or Emacs in
headers).
"Solved" is never removed from subject, making it close to useless if
the message caused continuation of discussion. In this sense messengers
and web forums with their likes and thanks may be better to mark useful
messages in long threads.
Let's avoid discussions if gmail should be used. De-facto it is widely
used, it has features and limitations. My point is that gmail users
should be aware that some suggestions perfectly valid for other MUA
should be avoided in the mail.google.com web application.
