Changing the title of a thread is a nuisance

[Anonymous]

Maybe I'm alone in this but I have POP3 email that comes through instantly, unlike a web-based email system so the first I know of a new post in a thread that I am following is an email. If I'm following a dozen or so threads and the thread on, say, batteries is suddenly re-titled by a poster to be part of his message we get something like this....

Title: I don't agree.......

Message: that this the way to do it, it would be better to do it the way that Harry said.

Firstly, the meaning of the whole message is lost if someone uses the title as part of his message and secondly it is impossible to know which thread to open - other than by clicking on the link, which opens up a new browser.

 

[cliff]

Only to some

Personally, I don't have a problem with it.
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[halcyon]

Agree with you, I seem to spend half my life opening threads to see whats in them.
Okay if you read one forum by index probably, but I tend to punch up last 24 hours, and have a browse.

Brian

 

[Skyva_2]

Totally agree. It is a real nuisance, and what is the point?

 

[jonathankent]

If you have all the posts sent via email, why do you then need to read them in the thread?

Oh, and they always have the link in the email anyhow.

Where's the problem?

 

[Lakesailor]

I Don\'t Agree

with that. I just look at the Forum list. If you must go all High-Tech it's your own problem.

 

[DeeGee]

Re: I Agree

[ QUOTE ]
with that. I just look at the Forum list. If you must go all High-Tech it's your own problem.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, I agree with your disagreement /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[webcraft]

Re: Reverse osmosis in Snurble Grip-Thribleys

Slightly agree . . .

 

[Anonymous]

I've already explained the problem in the first post, so I won't repeat it.

But what's the point in changing the thread title? All it can possibly do is make it more difficult to follow a discussion as anything the poster wants to say is best put into the body of the message, where it will be seen, not the thread title which is there to identify it as part of a specific discussion.

Seems weird to me why people should want to change the thread title unless they are coming in with a major digression or, as sometimes happens, when someone has changed the title of the thread e.g. 'Anchors' to a banal and absurd 'I'm sorry but....'.

Anyway, 'nuff said.

 

[Lakesailor]

I Agree, \'nuff said

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[VicS]

Re: I agree with Cliff

 

[ColinHuggins]

Re: Changing thread titles

Am pleased not to be the first dinosaur observing that your technology appears to have outstripped you, but . . .

Many posters do not use a succinct, relevant titles - some might even be accused of eye-catching!

Many threads wander off the original theme and it is the development which warrants an input NOT the starting point.

Anyway, I've changed this heading, certainly more apposite than "I agree, 'nuff sed" - even that wasn't correct.

Cyber freaks, eat your heart out.

 

[Anonymous]

[ QUOTE ]
Am pleased not to be the first dinosaur observing that your technology appears to have outstripped you,

[/ QUOTE ] No, you are not the first to say that, which I find puzzling. POP3 mail (Outlook/Outlook Expess, for example) has been around for a very long time. I have been using POP3 for a decade. Mind you, I often get asked to help people set up their wifi and email and it is remarkable how few yachtsmen seem to understand it - they all use web-based email which is a terrible system that I only use when in internet cafés. I don't think that you'd call it high-tech /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Anyone Understand What They are Now On About?

I'm sure I don't. Why would anyone use web-based e-mail? Unless they were away from home.
And to what does "your technology appears to have outstripped you" refer?

It's all a mystery to me.

 

[Ships_Cat]

Re: Anyone Understand What They are Now On About?

As Lemain will be quick to agree "It's all a mystery to me" too /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

I use POP and IMAP using MS Outlook client, and Webmail too, according to circumstances - but there again some would say that I am not a yachtsman either so I guess it's ok for me to be rash.

John

 

[fireball]

And moving off on a tangent

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