14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
4:28 p.m.
From: Dale H. Cook
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:52 AM
Please do not change the subject line in a thread. The
subject line of
this thread has been changed twice since it began as "68K Macs with MacOS
7.5 still in production use..." When you change a subject line the header
information concerning the subject is unchanged, and that is what the
list archives and some email clients go by. There are now three threads
concerning different subjects archived as one thread at classiccmp.org.
If you want to change a subject please start a new thread, and if you
wish you can give the new thread a subject line such as "New Subject (was
Old Subject)" to reflect its origin.
Actually, Mr. Cook, the standard for the last 35 years or so has been to
change the subject line, with the old subject in SQUARE BRACKETS with the
characters "was: " prepended. Any decent newsreader or threading mail
reader knows how to deal with that, and threading is unbroken. What was
broken in the messages about which you complain is the substitution of
parentheses () for brackets [].
See the subject line on this message for an example.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/