[muglo] Re: Netequitette

Excellent, Paul. If we really want to take off on a whole new BTW, start a
new thread, or do the [was Old Subject] thing Paul suggests.

Thanks Paul for bringing up that parenthesis thing. I've seen it a zillion
times but never thought about it--it really is so self evident.

> From:
> Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:40:19 -0400
> To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [muglo] Re: Netequitette
> 
> 
> on 1/21/03 3:21 PM, Bill West at billwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Just a small comment on your valiant effort to shame us from our =
>> lazyness--if we change the Subject (other than a "Re:") we are breaking the =
>> archive thread of information. Future seekers will not find the message =
>> body of the new Subject.
>>

 
> So Paul Thomas <paulthomas@xxxxxxx> commented:
>
> This is my point:
> 
> Assuming a message is dealing with a problem on Netscape and a reply has a a
> a solution but then goes on to talk about a similar or different Internet
> Explorer problem. Then later someone else replies with a comment on the
> Internet Explorer rather than the original Netscape query, then to my mind,
> this is starting another thread which I do not happen to be interested in.
> My point then is that I would rather know that I am on another thread;  by
> all means include something like Re: Internet Explorer (formerly Netscape)
> initially to show the connection.
> 
> I hope this has cleared my thoughts rather than muddied them!!
> 
> Paul
> 
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