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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <12715@looking.on.ca>
Date: 13 Sep 89 07:41:31 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In fact, my argument has always been that the ability to have an automatic
subject line with "Re:" is a bug in the news posting programs.  It
discourages people writing descriptive subjects.  What I want is a subject
line that tells what is in the article it heads, not a subject line that
tells what is in the article it's replying to, N times removed.

Sadly, it's getting very hard to change this.  Mind you, I think people
would be more willing to go for radical change like this than for NN's
change.  NN's change was pointless, that's why it annoyed people.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473