Re: ferret: Informative e-mail subject lines

[Steve Cousins <cousins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, h barrier wrote:

> Hi everyone 
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> - I  agree with  Billy. With   a descriptive subject, our mail is more likely to be read by the right people.
>  
> -  When  I  see mail  with a vague subject text (e.g., issue, problem, solution, ) , I  tend to regard it  as spam, and my  mouse regards the <delete>  as a piece of cheese.
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>  It  would be great to  have   'ferret'  appear in the subject  line.
>  E.g. Subject: ferret: problem with subject line


FWIW, I agree.  One thing I find very helpful with other lists is that the
subject always starts with: [name_of_email_list].  This makes it very
easy to filter it to automatically send those messages to their own
mailbox. 

Steve



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> Have a great day
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> - Herve' -
> Rutgers University
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> William S Kessler <William.S.Kessler@noaa.gov> wrote:
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> At the risk of exposing myself for the curmudgeon [grognon] that I am,
> can I suggest that people writing to this group use descriptive subject
> headers? Subjects such as "problem", "question", etc aren't very
> helpful. Better subjects would result in more replies, since more people
> would recognize a situation they have some knowledge of. And considering
> that many of us search the history of this e-mail list for hints, better
> subject headers would be very useful.
> 
> Humph! Grump grump grump!
> 
> Billy K
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