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Date:         Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:23:37 -0800
Reply-To:     mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      was Make your subject line clear and descriptive NOW it's ah, umm.
Comments: To: developtrust <developtrust@home.com>
In-Reply-To:  <013f01c17577$55a7c1a0$6601a8c0@vista1.sdca.home.com>
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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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