JRS: In article <ds********@drn.newsguy.com>, dated Wed, 8 Feb 2006
13:48:26 remote, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Lee
<RE**************@cox.net> posted :
News said:
Sorry I just copied your form forgot the changes I made to it
Please don't change the subjects of message threads.
Disregard that. It's meaningless (a thread does not have a subject;
articles have subjects) and its intent is wrong.
The subject line can and should be changed if the topic of the article
changes enough to justify it.
There's no need to pander to inferior newsreaders that cannot thread
articles on References.
However, the subject line should not be changed arbitrarily or in the
manner in which "News" changed it.
"News" has provided a demonstration of one of the stupidities of Lahn-
style attributions; they become useless where the "author's name" is not
a name, or is unreasonably short or common.
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