John Cowan: Very much +1. Part of the trouble is that Gmail and similar clients don't routinely show you the Subject: line to make it easy to edit it; you have to take affirmative action when you want to change the subject matter. ==== Perhaps we should take a leaf from 1980s Rob Pike, and just automatically change every message to be Subject: The content of this message (There is an actual story behind that, but I'll leave it to Rob to tell.) Norman Wilson Toronto ON