--- Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
See, now isn't that annoying? Cut it out, for the love of god. There is a reason emails have subject lines. It's so I can mute them in gmail, and not be bothered with that thread again. When people change the subject line it pollutes everyone's inbox, and breaks threaded reading and sorting. Stop It. Stop it now. Internet pollution kills baby seals.
If you're going to change the subject line, change the damn subject, and write a completely different unrelated email.
While I can't pretend to have been using the Internet since it was created, I can say with certainty that I am old enough to have used "bang paths" and Internet gateways to such services as Prodigy and Compuserve, which was a loooong time ago.
And between that time and now, if someone replied to a thread with message content that was *slightly* different from the original subject's discussion content, but not enough that the folks who had been interested in the old thread would not be interested in the new thread, they edited the subject line by putting the old subject line in parentheses, with the word "was" to indicate the old subject line.
While "it's traditional!" often leads to bad things like the burning of astronomer "heretics" and the failure to accept soap and proper daily hygiene as a good idea, it also leads to Igor getting your coach home by sunset so that the children of the night don't make beautiful music while they feast upon your corpse.
So I'm sticking by my tradition of recycling subject lines. It's worked for at least 15 years, and your complaint is the first one I've seen about the practice.
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