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From: Rockne Johnson <>
Subject: Re: [DK] List Guidlines
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:23:44 -0700
In-Reply-To: <ba.36adcdd1.2b72ab33@aol.com>


Hi Margaret,

You are correct that using the reply button will retain the subject line in
the heading. If the new message is indeed a reply, then the same heading
is probably appropriate. But the topic has a way of drifting to something
entirely different after several generations of replies. This is the time
to change the subject line or preferably to start a new thread by using a
"new-message" or "compose" button.

I took a trip to San Francisco a couple of years ago, sending a message to
advise the list of my absense. Upon returning a very few days later I
found that my subject line "San Francisco here I come" had been reused many
times over and had no relevance whatsoever to anything in the texts
accompanying it.

Rock

At 01:00 PM 2/5/03 EST, wrote:
>Hello Rock,
>I do appreciate your information that everyone should follow to keep order
on
>the list.
>My question might seem dumb to some:
>Where you open and read something and want to reply are there set steps to
>take or does one just push the REPLY button.
>I know this will use the same subject line, but is this when one should
>change the subject line to fit the answer. When one pushes the REPLY button
>does this automatically copy and show the original subject.
>I am not very computer literate and I guess I need a written out direction
as
>to what is the proper way to answer or REPLY.
>Sorry it is so hard for me. ;(
>Margaret Jeppesen-Ezell
>
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