See below. From: pablof7z<-DerekRoss at 06/11/23 10:11:33 on wss://atlas.nostr.land CC: #[4] CC: #[5] CC: #[6] CC: #[7] >--------------- > > I'm not sure what you mean by (not 1 character). Certainly a client can include the subject tag in a search. More-speech does that now. > > You can’t do #search filter as relays don’t index non-1-char tags That's true. However, I _can_ search every message that comes in from the relays I read. I should point out that more-speech reads, and builds a database of, every message that comes in from subscribed relays. (actually, you can set each relay to read all, trusted, or web-of-trust) This is a significant factor that the twitter mindset has not really considered. Clients that don't adhere to the twitter mindset may tend to treat the relays as message sources more than as search engines. > > > #e queries are good when you want to search for notes that refer to other notes. However, I also want to search for notes based on the contents of subject (and the note itself). So I want to put any note with "CNN" in the subject into my "CNN" tab. I can't do that with an #e tag. > > My point is you don’t need the subject tag everywhere, just on the OP; each reply you can get by #e:[OP’S ID] That's true _if_ the sending client obeys the threading nips. I note that, at the moment, quite a few do not. And, in any case, I don't want to restrict my search to a single thread. I want all message with CNN in the subject in my CNN tab. > > Iirc the subject NIP doesn’t mention anything about replies having to copy the subject tag everywhere I don't recall. I'm not interested in the legalities. The point I'm trying to make is that topics and threads are distinct things. We can have several disconnected threads within a topic, or several topics within a single thread.