etiquette for replying to daily digests

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM <nanog () immibis com> wrote:

> On 9/11/24 18:37, Willy Manga wrote:
>
> > 2. Copy exactly the subject line of the relevant message I want to
> > reply and if it doesn't yet contain a 'Re:' in front, I insert it.
> >
> > And that is exactly what I'm doing with this reply.
> > [...]
> FWIW this did appear as a new thread in my client (Thunderbird).
>
> Replying to the digest like this breaks the proper reply link in the
> message headers, and relies on clients using heuristics like matching
> the subject and quoted text, which not all clients will do.
Isn't it better to *not* put the "Re: " in the subject line, so that the
reply
keeps the same threading as the original message?

Or am I just an outlier in doing it without the "Re: " addition in the
subject line?

Matt