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> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> > See subject
>> It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to
>> have to go back to the subject line like this.
>> > See subject
>> is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive.
>
> To each his own, I guess. =A0In the case of a one-liner question
> which is adequately asked in the Subject, some of us find it a bit
> annoying to see the same question repeated as the only body line.
>
>> It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader
>> that does not show the subject in the included text for a response.
>
> I'd expect it to have been reused -- prepended with Re: if it didn't
> already start that way -- as the Subject: of the reply.
Assuming you hit Reply to every question like that....
Chris
--=20
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> > See subject
>> It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to
>> have to go back to the subject line like this.
>> > See subject
>> is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive.
>
> To each his own, I guess. =A0In the case of a one-liner question
> which is adequately asked in the Subject, some of us find it a bit
> annoying to see the same question repeated as the only body line.
>
>> It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader
>> that does not show the subject in the included text for a response.
>
> I'd expect it to have been reused -- prepended with Re: if it didn't
> already start that way -- as the Subject: of the reply.
Assuming you hit Reply to every question like that....
Chris
--=20
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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Conversations: how do I append a PR I submitted?
- how do I append a PR I submitted? by Aryeh M. Friedman on 2009-06-29T11:39:51+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by Sylvio Cesar on 2009-06-29T11:45:51+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by Giorgos Keramidas on 2009-06-29T15:07:50+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by Jerry McAllister on 2009-06-29T15:35:35+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by Anton Shterenlikht on 2009-06-29T15:48:31+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by Anton Shterenlikht on 2009-06-29T15:51:41+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by on 2009-06-30T06:13:03+00:00
- Re: how do I append a PR I submitted? by Chris Rees on 2009-06-30T06:37:19+00:00
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