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Dick St.Peters wrote:
Julian Mehnle writes:
Dick St.Peters wrote:
Subject: Successes and failures of the SPF project in 2005
This sub-thread has become about what SenderID calls a scope.
Points it out and then doesn't change the subject. *sigh*
Please change the subject when you change the subject. Please!
Sigh ... I observe that the subject is drifting off course and end my
post by trying to yank it back, and Julian chooses me to holler at.
Yes, Subject headers should be changed when a new topic is introduced,
but topics don't have clean boundaries and most threads drift. This
case is an example:
- Frank described SenderID's spf2.0/mfrom as "non-existing"
- I challenged that and happened to use "scope" in my post
- Frank said mfrom isn't a scope, it's an identity
- I pointed out spf2.0/mfrom is called a scope in the SenderID draft
Where was a new subject introduced? Arguably each of these posts
started a new subject, and just as arguably none of them did.
I didn't mean to criticize you specifically. You just were the unlucky guy
who tried to focus the sub-thread on some issue but failed to set the
subject to something that actually matched the point of his message.
Anyway, I agree that threads often drift, and that no participant in
particular is to blame. But everyone disclaiming responsibility doesn't
exactly solve the problem. _Every_ participant should try to recognize
when the thread has drifted too far to maintain the old subject any
longer.
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