On Thu, 26 May 2016 14:39:17 +0100, Stormin Mormon wrote:

On 5/26/2016 8:57 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
"Mr Macaw" writes:


You are the only person I have ever seen that likes to change the subject line. It's utterly pointless and stands out like a sore thumb

To be fair, it was Usenet convention to change the subject line
when the subject changed (e.g. Subject: Fred (was Joe)). The
threading is preserved by the References: header.

However, since eternal september started, the conventions have gone the way
of the Dodo.


What would you think, if you went to the
library to check out "Tom Sawyer". You got
home and found that the book had changed
four times, and now it was a book on
Egyptian pottery. I get the same reaction
when I open a post that says "incandescent
can lights in the unfinished cellar" and
find a post about a lawn mower with a
mystery vibration.

Well everybody else doesn't find it a problem. Conversations drift, that's the art of conversation. It's a hassle to rewrite the subject all the time, and impossible if the conversation branches into three within the same post.

As for your analogy, I'd not expect a book to be entirely on one topic. Other things would get mentioned.

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