Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter 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 Lines: 15 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. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)