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From: norman@oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Topics...
Date: Tue,  7 Jul 2020 12:16:13 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200707161613.929A04422E@lignose.oclsc.org> (raw)

John Cowan:

  Very much +1.  Part of the trouble is that Gmail and similar clients don't
  routinely show you the Subject: line to make it easy to edit it; you have
  to take affirmative action when you want to change the subject matter.

====

Perhaps we should take a leaf from 1980s Rob Pike, and
just automatically change every message to be

Subject: The content of this message

(There is an actual story behind that, but I'll leave it
to Rob to tell.)

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-07 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-07 16:16 Norman Wilson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-07-08 13:06 Doug McIlroy
2020-07-07  2:11 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-07 14:33 ` Tomasz Rola
2020-07-07 14:38 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-07-07 15:26   ` John Cowan

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