Re: Subjects and threads

2016-09-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-09-04 at 07:59, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Adam D. Barratt: > >> I'm sure I'm not the only one irritated by this, > > Then you should be looking at the Debian software that drives > https://lists.debian.org/ , which seriously mucks up subject > processing, and not at us poor user

Re: Subjects and threads

2016-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 12:59 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Adam D. Barratt: > >  > I'm sure I'm not the only one irritated by this, > > Then you should be looking at the Debian software that drives  > https://lists.debian.org/ , which seriously mucks up subject processing,  Strangely,

Re: Subjects and threads

2016-09-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > If you had directed your irritation to the bug area for the Debian software > rather than at the poor Debian software end-users, you would have found that > several bugs about some of these very things were filed years ago

Subjects and threads

2016-09-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Adam D. Barratt: > I'm sure I'm not the only one irritated by this, Then you should be looking at the Debian software that drives https://lists.debian.org/ , which seriously mucks up subject processing, and not at us poor users who are long-suffering under it. Debian software gets References

Subjects and threads (was: Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?)

2016-09-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2016-09-03 at 21:01 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: [stuff] btw, I'm sure I'm not the only one irritated by this, but when replying to a message it is conventional to indicate such in the Subject header (e.g. with the addition of an "Re:"), unless one is changing the subject - and