- subject headers

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Hi ,

In our list rules we ask folks to change the subject line if the thread has

diverged from the original topic. Sometimes we forget (I do too) and no one is

going to get moderated for forgetting .. unless someone did this habitually just

to annoy people, but I've never known that to happen, anywhere..

Some lists do ask their members to insert " was " (such and such a topic) but we

don't. If folks want to insert " was, etc.. " great, sometimes I do too if it

seems appropriate to do so. However, as in the case of this post I'm writing

now, it in no way relates to Cheryl's post, so as a courtesy to her, I change

the header entirely.

If you read these posts on the ASPIRES Yahoo groups web page, or get these posts

in digest form, Yahoo groups will link the post with previous ones in that same

general line of conversation, as long as the poster " replied " to a previous post

in the topic, and just changed the header - and *hopefully* snipped most of the

previous posters comments, *unless* they were replying to specific points in

that post. Judicious editing is a plain courtesy that 1) makes the posts easier

to follow for those who receive this group's mail in digest form and 2) Makes it

possible for those who have slow connections and/or have limits on their

bandwidth to get all their mail, not just some of it. Though in larger urban

centers slow internet may seem like a thing of the past, believe you me I know

people in outlying communities around here who still have dial-up connections,

and can't use their cell phones at home because they are in " dead zones. "

Many members here do read the posts on the web, I do too, as it seems the

easiest way to follow posts, and refer back to them later.

- Helen

Moderator of ASPIRES

> A request: when you change the subject line, don't just change it from

" XXXXXX " to " YYYYYYY " ; instead change it from " XXXXXX " to " YYYYYYYY was

(XXXXXXX) " . This will allow those of us who had been following the XXXXXX thread

to realize it has changed its name to YYYYYYY, so that if we wanted to refer

back to an earlier post in the thread to refresh our minds about some point we

will know that YYYYYYY is a continuation of XXXXXXX.

>

> Thanks!

> ~