Memo to All and Sundry (Especially Sundry!)

[ed_rex]

I am a natural-born archivist (or "pack-rat", if you prefer), and like to be able to cross-reference things on file.

Such as livejournal replies.

To make a long story short, I hate empty subject-lines, Gentle Readers. Those of you who have been using it when replying to entries here already have my Gratitude; those of you who will read this and start to use it will have it. Those of you who refuse to do so, will cause me to mutter briefly, then carry on with Life.

In other words, this is a Request, not a Rule. Carry on.

Comments

Re: on the subject...

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help within Livejournal, but without — when searching through gmail, for instance. Nor will it help if people change the subject-line with each reply. Also, it will help if ever I leave LJ or if LJ bites the dust.

To tell you the truth, if I miss the old days of usenet; if I were running LJ, the subject line of a reply would, by default, say, "Re: [whatever the original post's subject was]."

Still, if it wasn't clear initially, blank subject-lines aren't that important to me, but more of a pet-peeve.