question/suggestion

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12021/06/39 09:52.97 ನಲ್ಲಿ, John Hawkinson <jhawk at alum.mit.edu> ಬರೆದರು:
> 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.

Any email client (including mobile email clients) worth its salt is going to wrap the subject line (at least in the email view, if not in the index view), so that shouldn't really be an issue, right?

> 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.

That's true. However, convention is *also* important, and Mutt's convention is...unconventional. Most email systems usually use FW: at the beginning to indicate that the email has been forwarded (if I'm not mistaken). Why shouldn't Mutt do the same?

Sincerely,

Chiraag
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