Re: Disney Adjusting Animal Kingdom Ride - NEWS ARTICLE

On Mar 6, 8:42 pm, (Testing123) Test...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

There is absolutely NOTHING in Usenet netiquette that suggests that subject
lines be changed.  It only creates confusion, and makes it more difficult to
follow (and group), a thread.

I see you still top-post.

<PLONK>


Actually there is, I remember this from my old Unix days (geez I hate
dating myself). If you hadn't had plonked me you would learn
something new. Anyways, I'm posting this so everyone else won't think
I was crazy (I am crazy but fun crazy not insane crazy, there's a
difference).

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/netnews/son-of-1036.html#5.4

This is the Standard for interchange of USENET messages (tada)!
Enjoy.


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5.4. Subject
The Subject header's content (the "subject" of the article) is a short
phrase describing the topic of the article:


Subject-content = [ "Re: " ] nonblank-text

Encoded words MAY appear in this header.

If the article is a followup, the subject SHOULD begin with "Re: " (a
"back reference"). If the article is not a followup, the subject MUST
not begin with a back reference. Back references are case-insensitive,
although "Re: " is the preferred form. A followup agent assisting a
poster in preparing a followup SHOULD prepend a back reference, UNLESS
the subject already begins with one. If the poster determines that the
topic of the followup differs significantly from what is described in
the subject, a new, more descriptive, subject SHOULD be substituted
(with no back reference). An article whose subject begins with a back
reference MUST have a References header referencing the precursor.


NOTE: A back reference is FOUR characters, the fourth being a blank.
RFC 1036 was confused about this. Observe also that only ONE back
reference should be present.

NOTE: There is a semi-standard convention, often used, in which a
subject change is flagged by making the new Subject-content of the
form:

new topic (was: old topic)


possibly with "old topic" somewhat truncated. Posters wishing to do
something like this are urged to use this exact form, to simplify
automated analysis.

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Yet another satisfied customer of Bartender Sam!



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