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Date:      Tue, 03 Dec 1996 23:51:18 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Your Mail 
Message-ID:  <199612040751.XAA01585@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 1996 23:19:26 PST." <199612040719.XAA14696@MindBender.serv.net> 

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>People, PLEASE don't ever address a reply to something on a public
>list as "Your Mail".  99.99% of the time, it is NOT _MY_ mail, and 80%
>of those instances are things I couldn't care less about.
>
>It doesn't take more than a few seconds to think up a subject line
>that has something to do with the purpose of the message.  This is a
>mental exercise you should try to get yourself in the habit of doing
>every time you send a message.  "Your Mail", and "A Question" don't
>count.
>
>The reason I am bitching is because this is about the fourth time I've
>seen it in the last couple months (not necessarily on this list each
>time), and I find it extremely annoying.

   Just in case you didn't know, "Your Mail" is inserted automatically by most
mailers when they don't find a Subject: line.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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