(urth) Proper Use of Subject Lines

[James Wynn]

On 5/21/2010 9:01 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> n my experience, it is unless you have a moderator with the ability 
> and the will to enforce pertinent subject 
I have, in the past, attempted to change the subject lines of threads as 
they moved OT. Maybe half or less of the participants followed. If the 
particular email that prompted them to responded did not have a changed 
subject, they didn't change it. Probably, because they didn't care about 
it as much as me or Mr. Brewer. Or, in the respondents opinion, their 
response *did* have to do with the original subject line. Hopeless cause.

On the upside, it is generally easy to tell when a discussion's wagon 
train has moved on. If I've lost interest, I stop following it entirely. 
With that method --although it's not neat and orderly, the problem is 
mostly solved.

J.