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Message no. 1
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Changing the Subject Line
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:47:55 -0700
For the mere cost of a Thaum, Drea wrote:
/
/ No, I'm a Goth. I'm just a perky one. Twist that however you will.

... I don't think you can get any more twisted than that ;)

/ Slightly off topic, I just have to ask - how come no one ever changes the
/ topic when they're replying to something, even when it has spelling mistakes
/ in it and is over a line long? Just curious.

Seriously? I hardly ever look at the subject line. Once I start
reading my email my mailer takes me from one post to the next, without
returning me to the index. I don't need the subject line because I can
quickly figure out what everyone is talking about based on the context
of their posts. Out of sight, out of mind. That doesn't mean that I
don't try to change the subject line when I should. But because I
don't see it, I don't think about it, and I tend to forget. I suspect
that it's the same with most of the other members of ShadowRN.

-David B.
--
"Earn what you have been given."
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Message no. 2
From: Martin Steffens <chimerae@***.IE>
Subject: Re: Changing the Subject Line
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:54:34 +0000
And thus did Drea write:

> Slightly off topic, I just have to ask - how come no one ever
> changes the topic when they're replying to something, even when it
> has spelling mistakes in it and is over a line long? Just curious.

Simply because that keeps the mail with the same subject together so
threads are far easier to follow. I sort my mail always in this way :
unread first; by subject. So changing the subject would split up the
thread and I prefer to keep 'em together.



Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie

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