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From: "Mark Lundquist" <mark@rational.com>
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Subject: Re: Subject line correctness
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:25:01 -0800
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Anders Wirzenius <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi> wrote in message
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>
> Mark Lundquist wrote in message <95fbit$nen$3@usenet.rational.com>...
> >
> >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

...until someone changes it again.

"Thread morphing" happens to everything, whether on-topic or off.  Just look
at where "Parameter Modes In, In Out and Out" went (I promise to change the
subject line if and when I post on that thread again! :-).  Most threads
that stay alive for more than a few posts devolve into discussions of
something other than the subject line would indicate, and then it's time to
change the subject line.

-- mark