Please make your subject line decriptive and relevant (was "RE: 2 questions")

[John Brier]

Hi Paolo,

	I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to Intimidate you or yell. Rather I 
imagined the caps as a way to emphasize the message, similar to when 
people repeat something like I did but on the second time they say it 
slower and a little louder. Hope that cleared it up.

John Brier

http://john.brier.name

On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 04:18 PM, Paolo Cordone wrote:

> On 21/04/2002, at 11:03 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> You mean "totally-not-descriptive." :-)
>
> OK, OK, I admit it, it was the most vague subject line in a while 
> (after "Wow", of course...)
> Anyway, I agree about what you say, and from now on I shall adhere to 
> the general consensus.
>
>> He unfortunately picked you as an example. I wouldn't take it 
>> personally...
>
> No worries, I have a thick skin, having been a netizen for over 12 
> years, I have sees far worse, especially on Usenet  and at the time of 
> BBSes :-)
>
>> But I've found from experience, that presenting a descriptive title 
>> and beyond that showing what I told the computer and what it told me 
>> (rather than assertion without evidence), gets me a 10-fold better 
>> response with 10-fold better quality of response.
>
> Quite right. My only gripe is that my using a non-descriptive subject 
> did not warrant a most inappropriate usage of all caps. Unless it was a 
> deliberate attempt to intimidate me (maybe John thought I was an email 
> newbie?) I cannot see why he could not have said what he wanted to say 
> in a more contained way (just as you did in your email).
> Anyway, life is too short for this sort of things. Let's move on...I 
> will use both my not-descriptive subject and John's shouting as bad 
> examples of netiquette :-)
>
> Paolo
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