V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu ( Stan Horwitz) (05/22/91)
It seems that many postings to Pascal-l do not contain a subject in the mail header. In consideration of other subscribers who receive a lot of mail from different sources throughout the day please specify a subject when sending a new posting to pascal-l. This will enable recipients of mail from pascal-l to quickly select only the postings of potential interesting. To those who continue to exclude a subject heading from list postings, understand that some people simply delete such postings without first reading them. I do not have time to go through postings which do not have a subject and if the topic being discussed were important, than surely a subject would be included. Stan Horwitz, Consultant | Bitnet | Internet Temple University | V4039@TEMPLEVM | V4039@VM.TEMPLE.EDU
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (05/23/91)
In article <26968@adm.brl.mil> V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu ( Stan Horwitz) writes: >It seems that many postings to Pascal-l do not contain a subject in the mail >header. In consideration of other subscribers who receive a lot of mail from >different sources throughout the day please specify a subject when sending a >new posting to pascal-l. This will enable recipients of mail from pascal-l to >quickly select only the postings of potential interesting. To those who >continue to exclude a subject heading from list postings, understand that some >people simply delete such postings without first reading them. I do not have >time to go through postings which do not have a subject and if the topic being >discussed were important, than surely a subject would be included. Right on! 1. ***** Q: What does "Subject: Re: none" mean in the news? A: It means that someone has posted a message without a subject header. This is a irrational thing to do. On top of that net rules don't exactly love it, consider the way in which many readers (I included) read the news. Because of the deluge of postings, readers first scan the headers (e.g. in rn use =) to decide if anything is worth a closer look. The most likely result is that postings with no subjects, or uninformative subjects (such as "Help urgently needed", "Information requested", "A question", "Read this", and so on) get summarily bypassed. Conclusion: If you post, use informative subject headers. That way your posting has a much better chance of being noticed by the potentially interested parties. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (05/24/91)
Because we're OBJECT-oriented programmers, of course!
Sorry- I couldn't resist.
disclaimer: Queen's University supplies me with computer services, not
my opinions.
John G. Spragge