On 7/5/24 08:34, Sam Darwin via Mailman-users wrote:
Hi,
We have a user who is proposing that reply messages from a mailing list should be in the following format:
Re: [MM3-users] Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade notes
and not
[MM3-users] Re: Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade notes
Their reason... is that mailman2, and other lists, used to do it that way.
I myself am agnostic about the difference, and probably prefer to keep things the way mailman3 recommends.
The questions are:
- What could be explained to the user to convince them the new method is preferable.
This is to support prefixes that contain %d for the message number. Suppose the prefix is [List #%d] and a post to the list has prefixed subject
[List #501] A Subject.
With old style, a reply a few posts later might have subject
Re: [List #504] A Subject.
But it is not a reply to [List #504], it is message [List #504] replying
to A Subject. so the appropriate subject is
[List #504] Re: A Subject.
- Can this be customized with a Setting? (Not that we will end up modifying it. Just curious).
In mailman 2.1 this was called OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING and prefixes without %d could optionally do it the old way or the new way , but prefixes with %d always did it the new way.
For Mailman 3 we always do it the new way even if the prefix does not contain %d.
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