I'm with Susan (WYSIWYG), in that I think a fairly short limit on thread titles is good. It's not hard to give a thumbnail idea of what's in the initial thread in the space that is given. Takes a bit of thought sometimes, though.

But the thread title doesn't have to give all that much information. If the limit were longer it would just encourage those who don't want to think to get wordier, and they would still run out of room. The content of the thread should be in the first post, not in the title.

Oh. And I've been on Mudcat since '91, I think it was, and though I've never read the FAQ, I had observed the unchangeability of a submitted thread title and (conversely) the customizableness of the message title, long ago. Just a matter of paying attention.

Dave Oesterreich