Re: Gitlab Migration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:57:08 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> For better or worse, some MUAs [1] and corporate-influenced
> workflows have trained a significant part of the population to
> top-quote.

We encourage people not to top-post, but don't require them not to do
so.  Some of them do, as you can clearly see in the archives.

> While this might work in the context of personal mail, it fails
> miserably in mailing lists, yielding a longer thread practically
> unreadable.

We generally suck it up and survive.  When the fraction of these is
not too high, it is not a problem in practice.

> On top of that, some MUAs (again, the same) don't know what a
> Message-ID is and thread based on Subject. Resulting in monster
> threads with the incredibly informative Subject "Re:".

That's what Rmail does, and I have yet to see a significant problem
with it, let alone that it broke my workflows.