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On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:54:28 +0200, Christian Gassmann wrote these
comments about 'Placing subjects in introductions':
>> Well, if I chose to change the subject, as I did above, and which may
>> very well be appropriate, the one in my introduction and the one in
>> this messages headers will not correspond, right? :-)
CG> Yes, but therefore you should (and did) use "(was: ...)".
(This is just me and not moderator speaking. Furthermore, there isn't a
specific charter rule regarding this).
Upon thinking about it, I don't see why I should, if I place it in the
introduction. I personally dislike long subjects and have always
questioned the necessity of including the old message subject when the
subject really needed to and has been changed. I specifically use a
regex to weed out the extra Re:'s and Fwd:'s from message subjects. The
(was <old subject>) falls under the same hat for me as "Re: Fwd: Re:
<message subject>", i.e., unnecessary additions.
I see that you've now removed the (was <old subject>) part of the
subject. Why? Isn't it still relevant? :-) Or is it only necessary for
the initial message that changes the subject? IOW's I personally
question its relevance at all.
>> If I were writing off-list, I would have deleted the '(was Re: etc)'
>> because the introduction covers that.
CG> Well, instead of deleting it, leave it there, and you don't have to
CG> use it in the introduction...
Matter of choice, IMHO.
CG> BTW, AFAIK "was" should be followed by ": ". That also allows it to be
CG> deleted by a regexp. :)
This may lead to unwanted deletions in legitimate subjects with the
string 'was:'. I agree that the semicolon makes it less likely but ...
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