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From: "Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>
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Subject: Subject line correctness
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Mark Lundquist wrote in message <95fbit$nen$3@usenet.rational.com>...
>
><dejmej@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:9534fn$5nt$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
>> In article <952i6j$nv5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>>   Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> >
...
>> > As I said before, the only thing that worries
>> me is when a
>> > legitimate discussion goes off topic, but I
>> really can't see
>> > how anyone can object to a thread with the
>> above subject.
>> >
>>
>> Which may be decoded to be an allowance to
>> discuss anything on comp.lang.ada as long as the
>> thread is popular with an extensive participation?
>
>That's the idea! :-)
>
>As long as the normal etiquette of indicating the off-topicness in the
>Subject line, I don't see a thing wrong with it.

So be it.

>
>One convention found in some newsgroups is to prefix subjects with "OT" for
>"off-topic".  Will tolerating these threads cause our signal-to-noise ratio
>to plummet?  No, because the discussion will dry up and blow away on its
own

So I changed the heading of this ,message to "Subject line correctness"

>
>I've really enjoyed following this "Latin..." thread.
>
>It's also interesting to see how these threads often have a way of working
>themselves back to being on-topic.

That you unfortunately cannot read from the subject line unless the content
of it has some indication. You may have dropped the thread some time ago :-(