In a message dated 7/22/2006 3:51:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, carolyne_cwy@yahoo.ca writes: No, no, no, (IMHO). There was nothing wrong with the original subject line. The changes you made also made it impossible for someone to do a search of subject lines with the term "John q. Public." The new subject line as you changed it eliminates the find. I agree with Lynn. I would be very unhappy if you changed my subject lines for what appears to be no reason. Is the board in question a locality board? If it is, and it is the state of Kansas, or a county in Kansas, then the addition of the KS is also unnecessary. Now, if the subject line had said John m Joanna, that would be a different story. Carolyne ---- Carolyne's comments above are pretty much what I'd also have said on this subject...but not exactly for the same reasons. Repeat the mantra: always err on the side of the author! It isn't our job to just switch subjects around to fit a mold or pattern we like as admins or to correct spelling errrors or any of the other hundreds of reasons I've seen admins list for changing a poster's subject lines. However, the search capabilities of the boards are not such that they permit phrase (in quotes) searches so searching on "John Q Public" isn't really possible on the current boards and so far as I know won't be possible in the future although searches will be vastly improved. On the boards if you search on John Public you will get hits on any posts with John and Public in the message--anywhere and in any order. It is just very disconcerting for an author to have HIS chosen words changed in any way at all--so please please have a very good reason for changing something. It could make a poster feel as if you are looking down at him and criticizing his choice of words and formatting and we are not here to belittle the board posters--the boards are really THEIRS and not ours. Our job is merely to make them stay on track. Joan