On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:31:00 UTC, "Greg Mayman"

wrote:

> -=> Roy Mcneill said to All
> -=> about "SUBJECT LINE" on 12-01-02  17:41.....
>
> RM> {at}MSGID: 3:712/610.16 f9164b7b
> RM> In the last 216 messages, 204 have had the subject line "Traffic
> RM> Light", and 12 haven't. Not many of the 204 have had anything to do
> RM> with traffic lights. This makes following a discussion line a bit hard
> RM> - could we please write relevant subject lines????
>
>Hey, Roy, we don't write the subject lines, we just reply to the
>previous message and leave the subject line as it is so people
>can follow the thread. Unfortunately the thread will sometimes
>branch, but if you want to keep the continuity, you have to keep
>the subject line.

Going to throw my 2 cents in here.  I use a newsreader to access
Fidonet (it's a feature of the BBS software that I run (Synchronet))
and my newsreader threads the messages out by default.  Until Roy said
something, I had 4 main message threads for weeks!

>I have seen this complaint before, and I agree there is SOME
>justification, but does it really matter?

If you want to have a conversation with anyone but the initial group
or someone willing to wade through 200+ messages that are *supposedly*
about a traffic light, you might consider changing the topic.  I
haven't been posting in this echo because that's what I thought the
whole thread was about.  Which is the "worse offense", not changing
the subject line because you don't feel like taking the two seconds to
come up with it, or me not taking the hours it would take to filter
down the thread?

Note, I put that in quotes.  Nothing wrong with either concept.

C. Hatton Humphrey
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