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Dan Lester <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:46:21 -0600
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At 10:38 PM 8/21/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>This feature would also be handy to get people to change the subject when
>it is wrong. For example we are having a run on posts with the subject
>"tobacco". None have anything to do with tobacco (which would be
>off-topic), but the messages themselves are on topic for the list.

Just remind them that in ANY mail program (yeah, there may be an exception
somewhere) they can change the subject line themselves, and have a PERSONAL
responsibility to do so.  Of course the concept of having personal
responsibility is foreign to at least half the people in USA these days.

dan

Dan Lester
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.  Erasmus, 1534

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