(urth) Improper Use of Subject Lines

Rob Thornton oblate777 at gmail.com
Mon May 24 08:06:39 PDT 2010


Agreed.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Discipline, voluntarily enforced, is a Good Thing.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:22 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>> Ve must haff DISCIPLINE!
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>>> On 5/21/2010 9:59 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> it's not a hopeless cause, it just requires enforcement. I do it on
>>> playtest discussion lists all the time: I lay out the rules for subject
>>> lines, ask people nicely to follow them, warn them when they go astray,
>>> and if they persist in going astray, I send them to the land of
>>> postings-held-until-released-by-a-moderator to wander in the wilderness
>>> until they see the light.
>>>
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