# (formerly called "Mailbag Answers")

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**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formerly-called-mailbag-answers/840129 "2019-09-12T22:01:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formerly-called-mailbag-answers/840129/1 "2019-09-12T22:01:09Z")

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I think this statement has been in the description of Comments on Cecil’s Columns/Staff Reports since I started reading here. Every time I see it, I wonder of it’s still relevant and necessary. I should say that I don’t have feelings about it, though it’s seeming a little like “Exxon–formerly Esso.”

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formerly-called-mailbag-answers/840129/2 "2019-09-13T00:04:42Z")

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They started out being named “Mailbag.” They we switched to “Staff Reports.”

Might still be some in the depths of the system tagged “Mailbag.” Search is somewhat borked these days so I can’t be sure.

You know what it means, and that’s what really matters.

Thanks for your comment.

Jenny  
your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator