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[John Li]

> Thread hijacking, 'untrimmed' posts etc. _are_ indeed a 
> serious problem

On the subject of 'thread hijacking', much needless bandwidth
has been taken up criticizing 'thread hijacking', when  poor
thread-tracking software appears to be at fault.  If the subject
line has been changed, a new thread should be considered
to be created.  In other areas, it is common practice to reply
to an email in order to get the target address and use the
correct sender's email, but change the subject line and the
content.  This behavior will probably not change--we should
avoid the programmer's pitfall of making users' habits fit
the software, and instead make software fit users' habits.

John