Over a longer period, you were perhaps as "guilty" of addressing people by name in a subject line as anyone else.

Improve? Howso? Certainly that arbitrary censoring you thought was a good idea reduces the sense of freedom and trust of the average TT participant, in some degree.

Your "brainstorm" idea was motivated by your wanting to reduce the heat being applied to you, IMESHO.

It would be a great overall time-saving improvement at TT if subject lines really did generally indicate what the content was going to be about.

Same thing goes for brief summaries, IMO.