From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 11: 0:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C158937B400 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702EBBEAD; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09357; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:00:05 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g3KHxkD10141; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What the devil is this POLA thing?? References: <20020420060746.A13570@sheol.localdomain> <20020420142025.GB450@hades.hell.gr> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 20 Apr 2002 10:59:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20020420142025.GB450@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: Giorgos Keramidas From: Gary W. Swearingen Subject: Re: What the devil is this POLA thing?? Date: 20 Apr 2002 17:54 UTC Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas writes: > PS: You shouldn't depend on the fact that my mailer shows the subject > line with the body of the message. Email messages are expected to > include in their body, well, a body, and not just a salutation. Your > message violates POLA, by not doing so. > > /me ducks and runs laughing ;) You mean I can no longer write things like "The subject question is answered in the Hacker's Dictionary."? I have to repeat the question? You mean I have to add to the body things like "Dear Giorgos" and "Petulantly yours, Gary" -- how about a date in the upper right corner? Might as well require that it use nice, easy-to-read outline fonts, too -- and be formatted for easy printing. Bad ideas, all. People should assume that people's MUA shows them at least the "Subject:", "To:", "From:", "Cc:", and "Date:" header lines and that other MUAs are in need of fixing or replacement. P.S. And while I'm ranting: FreeBSD.org should be ashamed of themselves for adding content to the bodies of our messages. Especially such low-value content. Grrr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message