Re: clearly identified messages (was: please type in topic here)

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Bill Braun (medprac@hlthsys.com)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 07:17:01 -0500


Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 07:17:01 -0500
From: Bill Braun <medprac@hlthsys.com>
Subject: Re: clearly identified messages (was: please type in topic here)

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>I quite agree with that, and would invite you to go further: put as
>"Subject:" field what the subject of YOUR message is, which is not
>necessarily the same as the one you are responding (Steve Stahl's example
>above is only the most frequent one). In addition to making it easier to
>decide whether to read the message or not (which is a somewaht negative
>reason), that will also facilitate the retrieval of messages found
>interesting by each one of the (= your) readers.

I would find it very difficult to follow an evolving thread of comments and
insights if the subject changed every message. The suggestion would have
the opposite effect of that desired; I would have to read every single
message to find those that belong to a single thread.

Bill Braun

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