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. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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