Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:23:37 -0800
Reply-To: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: was Make your subject line clear and descriptive NOW it's ah, umm.
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Can we get back on tires, gun control and the inability of North Coast women
to send me the money I so richly deserve [just a little something to see if
Phaedra's paying attention]
Mike
> From: developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
> Reply-To: developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:06:33 -0800
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Make your subject line clear and descriptive
>
> Most of the subject lines on this list are accurate. More than on other
> lists to which I belong.
>
> What I love about the Internet and this list and AMERICA, is real honest to
> goodness free speech. We all have the right to say what we want to say.
> About HTML or plain text or plain straight talk. And dry humor or plain
> pisedoffedness are welcome relief. If you are offended then chill out and
> get real.
>
> It is good catharsis and deep down we all know we each mean well or we would
> not be on this list.
>
> YES, the lazy sons of bitches SHOULD make it easy for others to read and
> find info. (I too am one of those lazy sons of bitches sometimes.) I belong
> to other (not vanagon related) lists and the most irritating lazy crap is
> an unwillingness to make a clear subject line so that archive hunting will
> be a easy for us all. I have even had difficulty finding my own "vanagon
> keepers" emails. I've had to write a second and third time seeking the same
> information. (This is unnecessary, and clear subject lines would make things
> so easy. AND I THOUGHT CLEAR SUBJECT LINES WAS ONE OF THE RULES OF THIS
> GROUP.) We are all busy, and life is mundane enough. We do not need to wade
> through crap that is avoidable and easy to fix.
>
> Lazy people SHOULD wake up. AND those irritated by it SHOULD use any means
> POSSIBLE to communicate-- gentle and harsh. Humorous and stupid. Clever and
> embarrassing.
>
> For God's sake check your subject line so that it is descriptive, and get on
> this HTML thing. If you don't know what it does or is (like I did not
> know)-- LEARN. And if you have learned, help those that don't know how to
> learn how to. AND RATHER THAN PISS AND MOAN POST A SOLUTION LIKE Larry
> Chase did. Post it over and over like Spam until everyone gets it. But post
> the solution, NOT THE PROBLEM. For God's sake wake up. POST THE SOLUTION.
> some of us just do not know. We are not all experts like you are. Some of us
> just learned to use the Internet and a computer.
>
> Keep on keeping on and CHECK YOUR SUBJECT LINE BEFORE YOU SEND and if it
> does not describe your content EXACTLY, change it.
>
> William
> Vanagon site http://members.home.net/holisticdream/vanagon1989.htm
> Holistic Health Center site
> http://members.home.net/wholehealthfound/welcome.html
>
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