From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 30 06:12:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E69106566C for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D658FC13 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id n5U6Ck8R077659 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id n5U6CkER077658; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA15731; Mon, 29 Jun 09 23:10:21 PDT Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:08:18 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: jerrymc@msu.edu Message-Id: <4a49abd2.TKuItlP0lNs/KVnb%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4A48A7EC.4070702@gmail.com> <20090629153148.GG80667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090629153148.GG80667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:47 -0000 Jerry McAllister 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.