"Graham Fawcett" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Hi folks, > > I just wanted to share a minor pet peeve I have with the list (and with > Usenet in general). There's a bad habit here of taking discussions off > on (worthwhile) tangents, but not amending the Subject line to reflect > the new topic. > > For example, there's an enormous discussion on "Andrei's Google Talk" > which is really about DDoc and Doxygen. It has totally left the Google > Talk building, and deserves a revised subject. > > The Subject line is our friend, use it well! :) >
Good point, I'll try do do better about that. I think it's been a bit of a "boiled frog" issue: Discussions tend to drift off-topic just a *little* at a time, so we don't notice until they're already a full-sized completely-offtopic discussion.
