begin  quoting Todd Walton as of Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:10:39PM +0000:
[snip]
> Not to change the subject, but what is your subject-renaming scheme? 

Insert the new topic, followed by (, change the Re: to a Was:, trim
the embedded topics if the subject line seems long, and append a )
on the end to close the open-parens.

> Why do you so frequently change the subject header?

To try to make it reflect the subject at hand.  That's what the subject
line is for, isn't it?  (The In-Reply-To: line is used for threading,
or it should be, IIRC, since that's definitive and the subject line
is not.)

Lord knows I'm not good at it, but I /try/ to be good about it. I mean, 
if we're headed down the path of discussing "Linux drivers" and the subject
says "OpenSolaris", there's a bit of false advertising going on there.

Some threads veer more than others; I suspect I'm a force for thread
instability as well.  This one, for example, seems to bounce all over.

-Stewart "Don't know if it is natural inclination or just training" Stremler
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