From Eunice - Editing Messages and changing subject lines

[Guest guest]

I am getting complaints about messages not being edited. Please remember

that only one or two sentences of the message being replied is all that is

necessary. Please delete the rest of the message. If you don't know how to do

this, please let me know.

Also, when we don't change the subject line to reflect the topic being

discussed, it is hard to go back to the archives to read particular messages.

hugs

Eunice

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/26/2006 9:44:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

schappaugh@... writes:

I understand the concerns about triming quotes, and can sympathise with

those who don't have a broadband connection.

Hi Mike,

Editing messages has nothing to do with broadband. We have a lot of

members that receive their messages via daily digest in which they will receive

as

many as 25 messages. When messages are not edited, they have to scroll

through the same messages over and over.

Also, some people read messages at work and they don't have unlimited time

to read the same messages.

hugs

Eunice

[Guest guest]

>

> Also, when we don't change the subject line to reflect the topic being

> discussed, it is hard to go back to the archives to read

> particular messages.

I understand the concerns about triming quotes, and can sympathise with

those who don't have a broadband connection. (Prior to my switching to

Gmail, I actually preferred the entire message be quoted, so I could re-read

what had been mentioned, as I don't read this list from the Yahoo Groups

interface. It made researching things much more convenient, especially on

some of the more technical lists I belong to.)

However, unless there is a drastic change in the discussion (and the message

really should have been a 'new' message), minor changes to the subject line

make it hard for me to follow a conversation.

Gmail threads messages based upon the subject line. If someone so much as

corrects the spelling of something, it breaks that threading. I frequently

flag threads I have responded to to followup on replies or other questions.

I flag the conversation 'followup'. If the subject line is changed, it then

breaks that flag.

Oh well, that's just my two cents on the issue.

Mike