if it were up to me, "Re: $original_title" would be enough with any reply (even up to a milion levels deep)
Agreed. This reply-marking-for-subject-lines
stuff has all been tried every possible way and the
advantages and disadvantages of various systems
discussed and rediscussed to death over the course
of thirty plus years for usenet and email, and the
consensus after all that was, just one "Re: " and
nothing more, unless the user manually changes
the subject line. I was under the impression that
everyone on the internet was aware of this, until
I came to Perlmonks. Replacing Re: Re: Re: with
Re^3: brings us up-to-date with what newsreaders and
mailreaders were experimenting with in the 1980s
that was subsequently determined to be the Wrong
Thing (as eventually codified in the GNKSA).
Yes, I realize Perlmonks isn't usenet, but for all
practical purposes the subject lines are doing
exactly the same thing, and lessons learned about
subject lines there do apply just as well here.
Experimenting with alternatives that the rest of
the world already tried and rejected is a waste;
I wasn't going to say anything about it before because
I figured it was something that just hadn't been
gotten around to yet, but if we're going to go to
the trouble to change the behavior, the behavior
to shoot for is the behavior we already know will
eventually be determined to be right, I would think.
;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print
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