A . Curtis Martin wrote:
CG>> I think you shouldn't quote the subject in the introduction at all -
CG>> that's why there is a subject header. I myself don't like to read
CG>> three lines of introduction before the message text begins...
> Well, if I chose to change the subject, as I did above, and which may
> very well be appropriate, the one in my introduction and the one in this
> messages headers will not correspond, right? :-)
Yes, but therefore you should (and did) use "(was: ...)".
> If I were writing off-list, I would have deleted the '(was Re: etc)'
> because the introduction covers that.
Well, instead of deleting it, leave it there, and you don't have to
use it in the introduction...
BTW, AFAIK "was" should be followed by ": ". That also allows it to be
deleted by a regexp. :)
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Christian Gassmann
The Bat! 1.47 Halloween Edition under Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, RC 1.5
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