Munged Headers....

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 23:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > I'm lost. This appears to be in the middle of a thread, but the Subject
> > has changed without anyone taking the trouble to indicate it
> > appropriately.
> >   
> My bad....
> > I find this ironic in a thread which has now turned into an argument
> > about correct header interpretations. Correct netiquette is just as
> > important.
> >
> >   
> I don't change the Subject very often and frankly don't know if there is
> any "standard" for it.  So, if you'd kindly point me to the
> documentation on that aspect of netiquette I'd be happy to comply the
> next time.   Or, maybe just not change the Subject and wait for someone
> to point it out that a change is needed.  :-)

The convention is to signal changes in the Subject line which reflect a
substantial change of topic, e.g. "Munged Headers (was: Setup of DNS
caching name server for home server)".

poc