[Dixonary] why the subject line is wrong...

[Scott Crom]

Dan Widdis wrote:

>Message
>To: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
>Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Round 1809--Vote for ARGHNESS
>From: Daniel Widdis <widdis (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:54:18 -0700
>
> > [Dixonary] Round 1809--Vote for ARGHNESS
>
>As a curiosity, Scott, do you change the subject lines or does
>your software do that automatically?
>
>Daniel Widdis

I take it that you're wondering why the "Re:" doesn't appear in
the subject heading. Sheer oversight! I handle my e-mail, both
reading and writing, in a very antiquated text editor (TSE, the
Semware Editor, in case you're interested) which has no such
thing as a "Reply" button.

So I do indeed type in the subject heading, not always including
the "Re:" On the other hand, I don't type in the [Dixonary}--I'm
guessing that the googlegroups.com software adds that.

Scott

[Daniel B. Widdis]

On 5/17/07, Scott Crom wrote:
> I take it that you're wondering why the "Re:" doesn't appear in
> the subject heading. Sheer oversight!

Actually, the Re: isn't the problem. I worked with Judy Russell to
tweak the thread-matching feature at tapcis.com to handle both re: and
lack thereof. Your messages have threaded separately the past few
times, and the difference was the hyphenation: the original subject
had [space][dash][space] and when you retyped it the subject had
[dash][dash]

I thought perhaps you had software that took " - ", thought it was an
em dash, and then converted it to the "--" convention when it wrote
text. But perhaps that's just you doing the same thing!

Not a big deal, I think we've all learned to handle orphaned messages.
I was just curious!

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Dan Widdis