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<node id="428594" title="Q re nodes' subjects" created="2005-02-07 03:04:11" updated="2005-08-10 21:27:42">
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monkdiscuss</type>
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blazar</author>
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Recently in a thread I changed the default 'Re: ...' subject of my followup (to one of my own posts) to 'Details' (because in fact I was giving additional details to the OP which I wanted to stay concise and self-contained).

&lt;P&gt;Then I've been warned by another poster not to do so and pointed to some documentation about how to choose effective subjects.

&lt;P&gt;Now, having spent some time in technical NGs, where this is even more of a necessity, I am well aware of how important it is, generally. &lt;EM&gt;But&lt;/EM&gt; here threads are kept together regardless of any subject modification. So &lt;EM&gt;the question is&lt;/EM&gt;: provided that you choose an effective subject for the first node (i.e., loosely speaking, for the thread as a whole), is it such a Bad Thing(TM) to change the subject of &lt;EM&gt;individual nodes within that thread&lt;/EM&gt; to something less informative?

&lt;P&gt;More clearly: I would never ever even think of creating a new discussion in whichever section with a node called 'details'. But if in the discussion 'Interesting technique to do xyz' I put a node called 'details', it's obvious that I'm talking about details regarding 'Interesting technique to do xyz'!

&lt;P&gt;Just curious...</field>
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