Now if only you would tell us who you are quoting? Some of these threads run to 100's of messages, it can get difficult to remember who said what. Though I feel that if the message is long one only needs enough of a quote to jog the memory a bit. If someone wants to know more they can go back and scan the tread for that message.
And while we are on pet peeves, I hate bottom posting, which the guys over on r.p.* insist is the correct way. I usually have read the tread and dislike having to scroll through pages of stuff to to find out the response. Dislike it to the point I often never get to the bottom before going on to the next message. And yes, my resident rodent has a scroll wheel.
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Cotty wrote:
On 18/2/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
1: Some digest-dwellers will reply to a post, and the subject line will only tell us from what digest it came. Is it possible to manually change the subject line so that it reflects the original one? Since, like everyone else, I wade through on average 150 - 250 posts a day, I have to vet the list by subject line, and I can't do that unless I know what the subject line is. So, when the subject line becomes a digest number, I tend to ignore them.
As a Digest-Dweller I can confirm that it is mandatory to change the subject line of a reply, otherwise the subject line stays as 'pentax- discuss-d Digest V04 #303' (for example). Any Digest Dweller who doesn't change the subject line deserves what they get, which will be ignored. You are right to delete these unchanged subject lines. It happens to most D-Ders rarely and usually accidentally. I will happily change the subject line half-way through a thread to correct it, as should anyone replying to it. I agree with Frank, and I'm not afraid :-)
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