RE: followup to bug report not included in bug tracker; diverseautomatic Subject lines; ACK noise

[Drew Adams]

> > Please put such metadata in the message body or other header fields.
> 
> Mail clients don't know about those either, so how will they be 
> preserved when someone replies? And then there is the Usenet 
> gateway to worry about, which is what really forces us to stick
> with having the bug number prepended to the Subject line, as
> even the reply address is lost when someone replies via usenet.

Yes, mail clients and Usenet can change or lose header info. And users can
change subject lines and message bodies. It happens.

Message body.
Or else append rather than prepend to the subject line.



Do others really think prepending stuff such as this to the subject line is
helpful?

 bug#431: closed by Stefan Monnier <address@hidden
 umontreal.ca> (Re:bug#431: 23.0.60;

ALL of that is prepended metadata. And it looks like we're now getting stuff
prepended to stuff that was prepended... (Press 1 if you want to see metadata.
Press 2 if you want to see metametadata. Press 3...) We all love Lisp, but we
don't need nested subject lines.

Where's the beef? Here's the real subject line:

 `display-buffer' opens vertical instead of horizontal windows

Kinda gets buried in the sauce:

 bug#431: closed by Stefan Monnier <address@hidden
 umontreal.ca> (Re:bug#431: 23.0.60; `display-buffer'
 opens vertical instead of horizontal windows)