how do I change the subject of a discussion?

quiet_lad

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Jun 5, 2012, 9:49:44 AM6/5/12

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someone changed the subject of my post to something else...how do I
change it back?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth/browse_thread/thread/5b856d3d0d118959/35409a280892f20e#

quiet_lad

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Jun 5, 2012, 9:49:15 AM6/5/12

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Doug Hoffman

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Jun 5, 2012, 10:45:32 AM6/5/12

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On 6/5/12 9:49 AM, quiet_lad wrote:
> someone changed the subject of my post to something else...

No, they didn't. They changed the subject on *their* post to reflect
that the topic of the thread had changed. This is considered the proper
and polite thing to do.

> how do I change it back?

You really can't, nor should you. I suppose if you post a reply that
appropriately should be re-named back to the same subject as your
original then that would work.

-Doug

Rod Pemberton

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Jun 6, 2012, 3:35:21 AM6/6/12

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"quiet_lad" <gavc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a25f5402-2f99-4744...@si8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com...

> someone changed the subject of my post to something else...how do I
> change it back?
>

[OT]

a) Don't change it just to change it. That's not polite. It is polite to
change it, if your post has no relation to the message you replied to.
I.e., a completely different topic, or your original topic. ;-)

b) You can't change the subject lines on other people's Usenet messages.
That's their message. That's their subject line. That's the way it was
sent. That's the way it is archived.

c) For your messages, you just change the subject line in your newsreader.
That's if you're posting to Usenet via a Usenet newsreader. You seem to be
posting to Usenet via Google Groups. This is not a Google Group.

Let's see if you can change the subject line. On a new message, the subject
line should be blank and you fill it in. Yes? You've done so. On a reply
message, the subject line should be filled in, but be editable. So, start a
reply to your first message in this thread. Is the "Subject:" line
displayed on the reply? It should say:

"Re: this is how you change the subject line"

Is the subject line editable in the reply? Can you add or delete
characters? If so, change it to what you want. It's that simple, or should
be. If not, complain to Google Groups. They've disabled changing the reply
line subject or not implemented it.

Sometimes, people reference the old topic when changing it. To do that one
places "Re: <new subject>" followed by ", was [" + "<old subject line>" +
"]". Then, you send your reply. The messages are linked together by
numbers in the Usenet message header.

E.g., I changed the subject line on this reply to:

Re: this is how you change the subject line, was [Re: how do I change the
subject of a discussion?]

Rod Pemberton

marko

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Jun 6, 2012, 5:54:50 AM6/6/12

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Rod Pemberton wrote:

> "quiet_lad" <gavc...@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:a25f5402-2f99-4744-9f37-
b34fa5...@si8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com...

Surely you must have to write a forth program to do it?

maybe lisp?, or prevayler? or shen?

Which would be better at changing the subject . . . . ?

.zen

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Jun 6, 2012, 7:08:53 AM6/6/12

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quiet_lad wrote:

not much with any significance.

.zen

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Jun 6, 2012, 7:16:15 AM6/6/12

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http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/offtopic.html

BruceMcF

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Jun 6, 2012, 1:52:17 PM6/6/12

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On Jun 6, 5:54 am, marko <ma...@marko.marko> wrote:
> Surely you must have to write a forth program to do it?

> maybe lisp?, or prevayler? or shen?

> Which would be better at changing the subject . . . . ?

With my Nook tablet, awk, surely, as its in my BusyBox and none of the
others you name are.

quiet_lad

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Jun 6, 2012, 6:57:31 PM6/6/12

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