AILIST-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (07/18/88)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 88 22:41 EDT From: AILIST-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Subject: Guidelines for posting (please read this) When posting messages to AILIST, please try to include descriptive Subject: lines. Things like 'Submission to AILIST', 'Please Post This', and the like are not really very helpful. They cause me the extra labor of replacing them with something (hopefully) more appropriate. I assume that anything sent to AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU is intended as a submission. If you want to communicate something that shouldn't be posted (questions, comments, requests to be added/deleted), use AILIST-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU. When posting a query about a subject, that alone should be your Subject: line. For instance, if you want to know about the FOOBAR software package, avoid 'Need to know about FOOBAR' or 'Need help with FOOBAR' in favor of simply 'FOOBAR'. If you are responding to a query, use the form 'Response to FOOBAR'. When posting Calls for Papers or Announcements, the Subject: line should simply be the name of the conference or whatever. Leave it to me to figure out precisely what category it fits into. Announcements should be short and to the point. Registration forms and unnecessary verbiage will be edited out without notice. For seminar announcements, a Subject: line more descriptive than 'Reminder -- AI Industries Revolving Seminar Tuesday' is nice. Perhaps a paraphrase of the title of the talk, followed by the name of the author would be more informative. Please resist the urge to fiddle with the Subject: line when replying to someone else's message. It's true that conversations tend to drift off-subject. But not everyone in the world has good conversation-following mail software (in particular, I don't) and keeping semi-consistent subject lines will help immensely. If anyone has any other suggestions or comments on this, please send them to AILIST-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Many thanks, - nick