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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Better subject lines.
	Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Summary: the problem with Summary:
Message-ID: <6274@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Sep 89 17:50:48 GMT
References: <1650@unocss.UUCP> <112@blekko.UUCP> <6120@ficc.uu.net> <4352@utastro.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <4352@utastro.UUCP>, werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> 	the attentive author adds a "Summary:" line...

Unfortunately, the summary line isn't sticky. So people follow up again
and end up with the bogus subject again.

Perhaps the best solution would be a "Re:" line, that contained the previous
subject, and a new "Subject:" line, containing the new subject.

See this article for a way to implement it without violating the RFC.
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