Doug wrote: > This is something that's been bothering me for a while. Its a bit of a nit and > if it doesn't bother anyone else I'll just shut up. Changing subject headings > for no apparent reason. If the subject heading is This Week in the Middle East > and we're still talking Middle East politics, why change the subject heading? > The reasons it bothers me are (1) I like to sort by subject heading and read all > the correspondence in that heading at once. If someone has responded to a > subject and changes the heading, that breaks up the continuity of the > discussion. (2) If someone has changed a subject heading it makes it more > difficult to go back and read previous posts on the subject - if for instance a > quoted post is referenced but the quote is snipped and I'd like to read the > whole post. > > I have no problem with changing the subject header if the subject really has > changed, this happens all the time, but if the subject hasn't really changed, > and especially if you are responding to a previous post on that subject, what > say we leave the heading alone?
Does it help if the original subject header is left in? I tend to change subject headers whenever it seems called for and leave the original one in after adding 'was' to it. If I sort I do a search on the original header and get all the ones that got spawned by it as well. Sonja
