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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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