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Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <1989Sep13.162419.22921@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1650@unocss.UUCP> <112@blekko.UUCP> <6120@ficc.uu.net> <699@philmtl.philips.ca> <12715@looking.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 16:24:19 GMT

In article <12715@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In fact, my argument has always been that the ability to have an automatic
>subject line with "Re:" is a bug in the news posting programs.  It
>discourages people writing descriptive subjects...

It also discourages subjects like, say, "x", or "followup".  Brad, I'm afraid
you seem to have this fixed notion that people will consistently put forth
the effort to compose sensible and descriptive subjects/keywords/etc. if
they are told to.  I doubt that very much.
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