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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:36:44 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        jerrymc@msu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0906292336j48b9dc0cn6e400f5b4638ee95@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4a49abd2.TKuItlP0lNs/KVnb%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <4A48A7EC.4070702@gmail.com> <20090629153148.GG80667@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>  <4a49abd2.TKuItlP0lNs/KVnb%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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2009/6/30  <perryh@pluto.rain.com>:
> 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. =A0In 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.

Assuming you hit Reply to every question like that....


Chris



--=20
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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