question/suggestion

[John Hawkinson]

I'd object to the proposal to add the "FW: " characters to the default.
Space is at a premium in modern Subject lines, especially with the
prevalence of mobile devices that have limited screen real estate, and
cutting out 3 characters is very undesirable. I think it's pretty clear
from context that an email address followed by a colon is indicative of
forwarding — email addresses are identities and an identity prefixing
something else (such as here, a Subject line), has good affordances for
associating that identity with what follows, and that's the essence of what
forwarding is.

Indeed, I sometimes wonder if we'd be better off without the leading "[",
but I haven't brought myself to try to save that single character.
--
jhawk at alum.mit.edu
John Hawkinson

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:24 PM ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ <mailinglist at chiraag.me>
wrote:

> 12021/06/39 09:27.23 ನಲ್ಲಿ, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users <
> mutt-users at mutt.org> ಬರೆದರು:
> > When I foward my mutt-composed email, I have something like the
> following, which I believe is the default behaviour:
> >
> > [mutt-users at mutt.org: Email subject]
> >
> > which I think is very nice because it gives the recipient an idea of
> whether the originator of this email is someone s/he should even bother
> reading from.
> >
> > However, most e-mailers are not mutt, so most people probably have no
> idea what this means.
> >
> > May I suggest the following default that clarifies better what is going
> on, or something like that, in the subject line?
> >
> > [FW: from mutt-users at mutt.org: Email subject]
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks a bunch!
> >
> > GT.
> >
>
> Ooh, that gets an upvote from me (I'm also going to go set that variable
> in my config...even though I don't forward many emails, it's useful to have
> it set when I do).
>
> - Chiraag
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