From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 11: 3: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC2E37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6045774; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:02:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3KI2tK48381; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:02:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:02:55 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What the devil is this POLA thing?? Message-ID: <20020420130255.A48286@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com References: <20020420060746.A13570@sheol.localdomain> <20020420142025.GB450@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from swear@blarg.net on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:59:45AM -0700 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 On Apr 20, at 10:59 AM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > 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. Your tongue IS planted squarely in your cheek, right? Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message