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From: ras@blade.UUCP (R.A. Schnitzler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: "Guidelines to write Subjects"
Message-ID: <958@blade.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 19:53:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: mkg@psuvm.bitnet.UUCP's message of 11 Feb 88 20:14:55 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Fri May 22 1987 on blade (berkeley-unix)

Of course the biggest problem with this is one we already face.  Most
messages on most (unmoderated) groups are followups.  More
specifically, for most postings, people do not do a thing to the
subject line, resulting in obsolete or uninformative subjects.  This
coding scheme would in practice, then, refer to the original message,
not necessarily the current one.

Also, I would have much preferred this topic coming up as a suggestion
("What do people think about...?" rather than an autocratic decree
"Please follow the guidelines below...."  I also resented the
implication that strict adherence to these guidelines had a direct
relationship to the intelligence of a posting.

Perhaps I missed some earlier postings that might have given a more
polite motivation to this decree.

-- 

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   it's physics, Jim"			Bell Communication Research  
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