Subject: bug#66330: 28.2; Gnus wide reply (S W) changes Subject header when used from Debbugs thread

From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 09:48:15 +0300

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> Hi Eli,
>
>>> The subject changing could be an issue outside of Gnus. E.g when
>>> responding to a patch in git patch series outside of Guix.
>>>
>>> However I think it is a general issue that mail clients append Re: or
>>> some localized variation of it.
>>
>> Re: and its localized variants are not a problem: all Emacs MUAs
>> support that and know how to ignore them for threading purposes.
>
> This is right in general. They have problems with cascaded localized
> prefixes, like "Re: AW: ". But that's another problem, and an edge case
> rather. Nothing I worry about.

It depends on how far much you interact with people that don't speak
English as their native language.

But then it's a minor issue even it's not an edge case.