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From: edb_tom@tor.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Informative "subject" lines, please!
Message-ID: <72@tor.nhh.no>
Date: 30 Aug 89 12:49:55 GMT
Organization: NHH, Bergen, Norway
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Hi, all!

I figure this might be a good place to post this...  I read a lot of
news, and generally skim the header lines (subject fields) to see which
articles I want to read, and which ones I can just skip without reading.
This would be a simpler procedure if more people would follow this
little rule:  Make your subject line terse but informative, and,
especially, make it say whether you're giving or requesting information
on the subject.  A subject line "Public domain C compiler" would be
better (in my opinion) as either "Public domain C compiler wanted" or
"Public domain C compiler available".

While I'm writing anyway, let's try to go easy on the flaming, shall we?
The recent 100+ messages in this conference about the size of .signature
files is a good example of how *not* to keep a newsgroup interesting!

-tih

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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone:  +47-5-959205
edb_tom@tor.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, helbekkmo@nhh.uninett