Stefan: >In fact this silly behavior makes archive cleaning impossible, since if >you, Peter, are shortening parts of the cited message, you might throw >away parts, the replying person thought to be important to be copied. >Since he/she copied a l l one will never know. This is a definite possibility though I do in most cases make an effort to read the whole message - quotes and all - and probably not much is lost except for my time. >I have some problem here with the subject lines. My mail program >doesn't allow me long subject lines. It limits them to 60 characters. >So I might be in trouble, if there is a subject, like >"Finding out about human health by history studies" >and I want to continue with "Paleolithic studies in comparison (was: >Finding out about human health by history studies)" I think this is the case for many of us, and I always make an effort not to make them too long. The one above I would shorten to: Paleolithic studies (was: Finding out about human health) = 57 characters. >This obviously would be too long and cut by my mail program. >I will help myself with ... then: >"Paleolithic studies in comparison (was: Finding out about..." >Accepted? There are many ways to skin a cat. Looks good to me. :-) >Should we make a guideline, that forbids replying to such a subject >line with "Re: Paleolithic studies in comparison (was: Finding out about..." >and instead one would have to use: "Re: Paleolithic studies in comparison" >thereby omitting the "was..." part? (It suffices for thread following >when the "was... " appears once). I used to do this myself but now I have stopped because "Re: Paleolithic studies in comparison (was: Finding out about..." and "Re: Paleolithic studies in comparison" would be grouped as two different threads in the archives. But I agree that the part "(was: Finding out about...)" is redundant after the first time. However, I am not really happy with either option and would wish that there was a third. Ideas anyone? Thanks for the valuable feedback! Best, Peter [log in to unmask]