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st: re: altering the subject line (sic!)


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: re: altering the subject line (sic!)
Date   Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:33:23 -0500

Eric said

I took a quick look at the Statalist FAQ but didn't see any guidance on something I find mildly irritating: the practice of altering the subject line. Somehow, some people can respond to a message without generating a "Re: " to the original subject. Others take it upon themselves to alter the original subject to something else, generally more informative. In either event, it makes it harder for the subscriber to identify the original posting & subsequent responses. Comments please.


While there is an exhortation in the FAQ to ensure that informatve subject lines are used, sometimes we see something like "Re: Statalist-Digest vol 4 No 223". Those of us who read the digest do not have the automatic option of picking up the subject line, since when replying we are replying to the sender of the digest rather than the individual message. I try to remember to change the subject line (and sometimes copy/paste in from the original message!) but in other cases (like this one) it seems more appropriate to change it, even though that messes up threading.... It also makes the message header informative, if you are only viewing a list of message headers (as in the digest listing at HSPH, which I prefer to that at StataCorp).

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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