Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:08:18 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: jerrymc@msu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? Message-ID: <4a49abd2.TKuItlP0lNs/KVnb%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20090629153148.GG80667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4A48A7EC.4070702@gmail.com> <20090629153148.GG80667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > See subject > It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to > have to go back to the subject line like this. > > See subject > is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. To each his own, I guess. In the case of a one-liner question which is adequately asked in the Subject, some of us find it a bit annoying to see the same question repeated as the only body line. > It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader > that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. I'd expect it to have been reused -- prepended with Re: if it didn't already start that way -- as the Subject: of the reply.
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