Re: Documentaion fix.

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 03:58:09PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Yeah.  I suggest never changing subject lines, because Gmail has the
> nasty (mis-)feature of making such a response into a completely new
> thread.  I don't know if Google paid mail service behaves in the same
> way.

If one uses Gmail with another client like mutt, then those don't get
broken.  I don't know about Thunderbird which I believe people use a
lot.

> So if you change Subject, please do include a URL to the previous thread
> if necessary, for the benefit of people reading on Gmail.

+1.

> I wouldn't worry about this for any other individual email provider, but
> Gmail is by far the largest fraction of subscribers :-(  I guess this
> shows just how much better Google made webmail systems than what existed
> at the time.

If something is free, you are the product, still I have to admit that
Gmail is not especially bad.
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Michael