Stop editing the damn subject (was Re: The End Of WesternCivilization (was Re: RoadRunner nonsense (was Re: fwd: RE: STFU RE))

[Leo Mauler]

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, March 3, 2008 16:00, Geoffrion, Ron P [IT]
> wrote:
> >  RFC1855 - Status - Informational.
> 
> > http://www.rfc.net/rfc1855.html
> 
> > - Mail should have a subject heading which
> reflects
> >       the content of the message.
> 
> Which means when the content of the message no
> longer bears any relation
> to the subject line, the subject line should change.

And if the the new content is based on the content of
the old subject line, the use of "(was re: ...)" is
entirely appropriate.


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