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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Random Junk (Really subject lines)
Message-ID: <1495@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 12:38:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1495
Posted: Tue Jul  2 12:38:45 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 00:10:36 EDT
Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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Why do people generate subject lines like the above when writing
followups?  Today in net.cooks I saw one that said
	Re: hot pepper oil (really caramel sauce)

The one subject has absolutely nothing to do with the other, and hot
pepper oil was mentioned nowhere in the article.  Does the news software
make it so hard to change the subject line on a followup?  (Granted,
this one shouldn't have been a followup anyway.)  Or is it that posting
a new message via the 'f' key is just easier than using postnews?  Is
there something that can be done about this (of course not, it's an
anarchy -- you can't force *anyone* to do *anything*!)?  If there is a
fault in the news software, maybe this could be fixed.  (I don't know, I
use rn now, which allows me complete control over my header lines.)

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=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
	"You don't get to choose how you're going to die.  Or when.
	 You can only decide how you're going to live." Joan Baez