Re: Wrong subject line

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2026, 07:07 UTC
Message-ID: <c61933c9-e489-4f4f-b4f4-74267d5eb76f@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260425174448.45681-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 25, 2026, at 19:44, Harald Nordgren wrote:

> I know you are not Ben. Forgot to change the subject line from a
> previous message.

You mean I’m not Phillip. ;)

    Subject: Comments on Phillip's review

I don’t understand why you change the email subjects so often. Right now I had three “Wrong subject line” in my inbox with lost threading (webmail client) with the only way to distinguish them being that I was the the CC on this one.

Most of the time whole 100-email threads like patch series never change the subject. And to me it is easier to keep track of those “RE: [PATCH v5] florb: drop glorb” than if someone changes the subject to e.g. “Regarding memory leaks” because someone found a memory leak in a review. Because that was a reply to an email from two days ago, but I’ve been a away for a week so I think it’s a new thread about something else.

That’s just my experience. My amateur webmail setup doesn’t really matter here since I just dip in/interrupt threads when I feel like it.