While I understand petdance's point, I tend to agree with Sifmole. When I find a topic that I want to follow, I'd like to be able to tell by the subject line

So on that note, I'd personally prefer a) keep it the same, or b) keep the original subject, and add specific comments, like "Original subject ( Use ..... to do this )" or something like that

But then again, I personally don't have strong opinion as long as I can follow a node's thread, really ....

I like a variation on kudra's method, namely: add my username, and a short description of my node in parentheses. I also condense multiple Re:'s into a single, using digits to indicate how many there were. See the title of this node for an example. :-)

bbfu
Seasons don't fear The Reaper.
Nor do the wind, the sun, and the rain.
We can be like they are.

I see the (username) prefix as excessive vanity now. It was cool at the time when we didn't have reference-by-node-number, and no searching-by-user. But we've added both of those since. No point now to have a unique name of an article, so putting your username out there just makes me think you're vain, and it wastes valuable communication space.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker