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Re: Meaning and purpose of the Subject field

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Random832 wrote:

> This makes sense for the change from "old" to "new (was: old)",
> which nobody was advocating against (after all, there's semantic
> content - they wouldn't have changed the subject line if they
> didn't consider it a new discussion topic), but I think there is
> a reasonable argument that changing it a second time from
> "new (was: old)" to "new" is frivolous.

Nonsense.  It is complete nonsense to carry around the old Subject
for the rest of the thread.

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