Re: META: ExIList & Subject lines

From: Alper Cugun (alper@dds.nl)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 14:29:35 MST


Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 9:13:43 PM, Robert wrote:

> So, I would like to recomend that before you engage your
> fingers to type a response, *and* before you hit the
> send key, ask yourself, "*Is* that subject line relevant
> to my comment?" Conversely, some people seem to exercise
> their creativity by *changing* the subject line when it
> really isn't necessary. You do the list a disservice
> when you do this because it means people can't sort
> their mailbox by Subject and read a topic as a collective
> set of messages.

May I add one thing to this?:
When you change subject lines would you please preserve the original
subject? Like this:
[new subject] (was: [old subject])

This would be much clearer for people who do not have threaded mail-clients
(and threaded mail clients tend do drop the threading occassionally so
this would be no luxury even if everybody used such clients).

-- 
Alper Cugun alper@dds.nl


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